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Today, trying to compile MacVim I ran into a problem with some shared libraries:

...
Undefined symbols:
  "_iconv_close", referenced from:
      _buf_write in fileio.o
      _readfile in fileio.o
      _readfile in fileio.o
...

The problem has to do with lib search path. I don’t know yet why isn’t used the system path (under /usr/lib) rather than the one used by macports.

Well, the thing is that the libiconv2.dylib under /opt/local/lib doesn’t have the _iconv_close function (among others):

[madtrick { lib } ]pwd
/opt/local/lib
 
[madtrick { lib } ]nm libiconv.2.dylib | grep "iconv_close"
000163f0 T _libiconv_close

While libiconv.2.dylib on /usr/lib does:

[madtrick { lib } ]pwd
/usr/lib
 
[madtrick { lib } ]nm libiconv.2.dylib | grep "iconv_close"
0000b905 T _iconv_close
0000fcce T _libiconv_close

So to fix this problem you have several choices:

• Deactivate libiconv on macports (and all its dependencies)
• Prepend a lib path

I went for the second one:

LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib" ./configure _your_options_here_

There you go : )

I tryed Visor, a quake-like terminal for Mac OS, in the past but left it because there wasn’t an easy way to switch between tabs.

Until now…

Today I found TerminalTabSwitching. A plugin to enable cmd + <tab_number> switching on Terminal.app.

I’m a bit happier : )