Re: gnome-libs and DB3

[Drazen Kacar <dave arsdigita com>]

Matthew Schalit wrote:
> Christian Marillat wrote:

> > Somebody can tell me how to compile gnome-libs against libdb3 3.2.9 ?
> > 
> > I got this error :
> > 
> > gnome-dump.o: In function `main':
> > /home/marillat/src/debian/gnome-libs-1.2.12/libgnome/gnome-dump.c:75:
> > undefined reference to `__db185_open'
> 
> Unless things have changed, the Gnome-Libs readme says to
> use db-2.7.7 - because it's the only one that works :)
> (Though I noticed some lidbb3 stuff, it never worked).

I'd be interested in knowing why the readme says that. It's not because
__db185_open and friends don't exist.

> If you do an 
>         nm libdb.so | egrep open
> you'll see there is no __db185_open in there, so how could
> it work?

nm /usr/local/lib/libdb-3.2.so | grep __db185_open

[2509]  |     64740|    1596|FUNC |GLOB |0    |7      |__db185_open

I suppose that original poster just didn't pass --enable-compat185 to
configure script and that's all.

> I certainly can't solve that one.  2.7.7 is simple. It just works.

So should 3.2.9 if built appropriately. I hope.

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