Hi, Compiling on FreeBSD 10.1 gives linker errors when linking test-message-snippet. The underlying problem is that libiconv appears on the actual linker line after libcharset.a, which leads to unresolved libiconv symbols. This build process worked fine with 2.2.15. The patch below to src/lib-charset/Makefile.in resolves the problem for me and seems broadly correct. libcharset.a does depend on libiconv so it should probably be declared that way. There is probably a more correct way to make the patch to Makefile.am, but I don't really use automake. Hopefully helpful to someone. Jan Mikkelsen. Patch: --- dovecot-2.2.16/src/lib-charset/Makefile.in 2015-03-13 02:41:16.000000000 +1100 +++ dovecot-2.2.16.new/src/lib-charset/Makefile.in 2015-03-21 13:58:21.951293274 +1100 @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES = CONFIG_CLEAN_VPATH_FILES = LTLIBRARIES = $(noinst_LTLIBRARIES) -libcharset_la_LIBADD = +libcharset_la_LIBADD = $(LTLIBICONV) am_libcharset_la_OBJECTS = charset-iconv.lo charset-utf8.lo libcharset_la_OBJECTS = $(am_libcharset_la_OBJECTS) AM_V_lt = $(am__v_lt_@AM_V@) Error messages: libtool: link: cc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/local/include -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wno-duplicate-decl-specifier -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wl,--as-needed -o test-message-snippet test-message-snippet.o .libs/message-snippet.o .libs/mail-html2text.o .libs/message-decoder.o .libs/quoted-printable.o .libs/rfc822-parser.o .libs/rfc2231-parser.o /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib .libs/message-parser.o .libs/message-header-parser.o .libs/message-header-decode.o .libs/message-size.o -L/usr/local/lib ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a ../lib-test/.libs/libtest.a ../lib/.libs/liblib.a ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a(charset-iconv.o): In function `charset_to_utf8_begin': charset-iconv.c:(.text+0x49): undefined reference to `libiconv_open' ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a(charset-iconv.o): In function `charset_to_utf8_end': charset-iconv.c:(.text+0x151): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a(charset-iconv.o): In function `charset_to_utf8_reset': charset-iconv.c:(.text+0x211): undefined reference to `libiconv' ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a(charset-iconv.o): In function `charset_to_utf8_try': charset-iconv.c:(.text+0x425): undefined reference to `libiconv' cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a(charset-iconv.o): In function `charset_to_utf8_begin': charset-iconv.c:(.text+0x49): undefined reference to `libiconv_open' ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a(charset-iconv.o): In function `charset_to_utf8_end': charset-iconv.c:(.text+0x151): undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a(charset-iconv.o): In function `charset_to_utf8_reset': charset-iconv.c:(.text+0x211): undefined reference to `libiconv' ../lib-charset/.libs/libcharset.a(charset-iconv.o): In function `charset_to_utf8_try': charset-iconv.c:(.text+0x425): undefined reference to `libiconv'