Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - fontconfig-2.3.2 compile error

Quoting Donald Werder <d.werder@comcast.net>:
> gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/fc-cache fc-cache.o  -L/usr/local/lib 
> ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to
`libiconv_open''
> ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to
`libiconv_close''
> ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `libiconv''
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [fc-cache] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/dhon/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache''
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dhon/src/fontconfig-2.3.2''
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> How do I fix this? I already had libiconv installed before I tried to 
> install fontconfig.
Try using automake 1.9 and tell me if that helps.  I think it helped me.

pat

I got the following error from make:
...
mkdir .libs
gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/fc-cache fc-cache.o  -L/usr/local/lib 
../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_open''
../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_close''
../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `libiconv''
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [fc-cache] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dhon/src/fontconfig-2.3.2/fc-cache''
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dhon/src/fontconfig-2.3.2''
make: *** [all] Error 2
 
How do I fix this? I already had libiconv installed before I tried to 
install fontconfig.

Thank you for any help.