actually as well to configure
--with-iconv=/usr/local/libiconv-1.7

(also tried just --with-iconv)

Does this happen with latest CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/ ?

OK I had a think and changed the configure statement to:

'./configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache/conf' '--enable-versioning' '--with-mysql' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd=/usr/local/gd1.3' '--enable-bcmath' '--disable-debug' '--enable-memory-limit=yes' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-iconv=/usr/local/lib'

this builds and loads OK, iconv is enabled in the phpinfo();

However if I create a test page with just the iconv example, it takes some time, but sometimes eventually says the function isn't defined, other times it produces a seg fault.

This at least means I can get a backtrace so here it goes:

This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
Core was generated by `/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#1  0x4000d816 in fixup () at eval.c:41
#2  0x4000d9b0 in _dl_runtime_resolve () at eval.c:41
#3  <signal handler called>
#4  0x40009e81 in _dl_lookup_versioned_symbol () at eval.c:41
#5  0x4000d816 in fixup () at eval.c:41
#6  0x4000d9b0 in _dl_runtime_resolve () at eval.c:41
#7  0x080616df in main () at eval.c:41
#8  0x400cf177 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8061324 <main>, argc=1, ubp_av=0xbffffb0c, init=0x804f340 <_init>, fini=0x80984d0 <_fini>, 
    rtld_fini=0x4000e184 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffafc) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129




James

Does this happen with the snapshot?

No feedback. Closing.