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Author: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
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To: Exim User's Mailing List
Subject: Re: [exim] error building on gentoo Linux (4.22) "undefined reference to `db_create'"
Anybody have any ideas on this?

Once I started trying to build this new exim, my running exim now won't
complete deliveries with the error:

/usr/local/bin/exim: error while loading shared libraries:
/usr/local/bin/exim: undefined symbol: db_create

so I need to get this solved asap as no one has gotten mail in the last
day and a half, it appears...

Looking at the output of ldconfig there is a libdb available and it is
the same one as before as far as I can tell. I have also tried to
emerge a new libdb (succesfully) and I still get the error below in
building and the error above at runtime (of my current exim).

I don't quite know what to do at this point.

Thanks
Chad

On Sep 1, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

> Well, as part of my test on why my exim started to behave differently
> (see 503 AUTH post) when I switched out Mandrake and put gentoo
> underneath it, I decided to rebuild my exim binaries on the new
> system, using the same source (exim 4.22)and Local/Makefile that I had
> used for the current binaries.
>
> I did a make clean and then a make makefile and a make and I get this:
>
> gcc -o exim_dbmbuild exim_dbmbuild.o \
> -lnsl -lcrypt -ldb
> exim_dbmbuild.o(.text+0x2be): In function `main':
> : undefined reference to `db_create'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [exim_dbmbuild] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/space/kits/exim-4.22/build-Linux-i386'
> make: *** [go] Error 2
>
>
> I also tried it with libgdbm. Exact same error... Both libdb and
> libgdbm are installed on the server and are found when doing ldconfig
> -p .
>
> Here are the files in /usr/lib
>
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      11 Sep  1 21:35 libdb-1.so -> libdb1.so.2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1081480 Sep  1 21:35 libdb-4.1.a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root     703 Sep  1 21:35 libdb-4.1.la
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  806640 Sep  1 21:35 libdb-4.1.so
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      11 Sep  1 21:35 libdb.a -> libdb-4.1.a
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      12 Sep  1 21:35 libdb.so -> libdb-4.1.so
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      11 Sep  1 21:35 libdb.so.2 -> libdb1.so.2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  905870 Aug 31 02:02 libdb1.a
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      11 Sep  1 21:35 libdb1.so -> libdb1.so.2
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   58484 Aug 31 02:02 libdb1.so.2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1179106 Sep  1 21:35 libdb_cxx-4.1.a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root     731 Sep  1 21:35 libdb_cxx-4.1.la
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  874160 Sep  1 21:35 libdb_cxx-4.1.so
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      15 Sep  1 21:35 libdb_cxx.a -> 
> libdb_cxx-4.1.a
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      16 Sep  1 21:35 libdb_cxx.so -> 
> libdb_cxx-4.1.so
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   50634 Sep  1 21:23 libgdbm.a
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root     466 Sep  1 21:23 libgdbm.la
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      16 Sep  1 21:23 libgdbm.so -> 
> libgdbm.so.2.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      16 Sep  1 21:23 libgdbm.so.2 -> 
> libgdbm.so.2.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   24972 Sep  1 21:23 libgdbm.so.2.0.0

>
> and the ldconfig stuff
>
>         libgdbm.so.3 (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.so.3
>         libgdbm.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2
>         libgdbm.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so
>         libgdbm.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.so
>         libdb_cxx-4.1.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-4.1.so
>         libdb.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libdb.so.2
>         libdb-4.1.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libdb-4.1.so
>         libdb-4.1.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.1.so

>
> (the ones in /usr/local/lib are also really there)
>
> I have not had this problem before building exim. I am normally a BSD
> person and use FreeBSD and have not had a problem there nor did I have
> a problem previously on this customer Linux box.
>
> Any of you who are better Linux gurus in terms of building stuff;
> thoughts and hints would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Chad
>
>
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