I don't think there is any way to disable the libunistring/iconv dependency. It is a hard requirement. --disable-nls merely turns off internationalisation. J' On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 06:50:19PM +0900, Kiyoshi KANAZAWA wrote: Hello, Tring to make guile-2.0.11 without NLS. ./configure --disable-nls --without-libiconv-prefix fails with message: checking whether libunistring was built with iconv support... no configure: error: No iconv support.  Please recompile libunistring with iconv enabled. Is this correct ? (tested on Solaris10 x86.) Regards, --- Kiyoshi -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.