Webalizer has a dependency on "=sys-libs/db-4.2*", but a newer, slotted version 4.3 is available in portage (~arch keyword). Installing another app depending on the newest db version (like apache) before webalizer will break the compile process (unresolved symbols). Emerging webalizer before such a package will make webalizer crash. Unmerging the sys-lib/db-4.2* package and then merging webalizer using --nodeps works fine. My suggestion is to change the dependency on sys-libs/db to ">=sys-libs/db-4.2". Tested and works for me. Patches for the current ebuilds (r12 and r13) are attached.
Created attachment 88518 [details, diff] Patch for webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild
Created attachment 88519 [details, diff] Patch for webalizer-2.01.10-r13.ebuild
Please, post some errors and reopen then. It'd be much better to fix the real issue instead of hiding it.
Here is the output of "emerge webilizer": gcc -I/usr/include/db4.2/ -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -DETCDIR=\"/etc\" -DHAVE_DB_185_H=1 -DHAVE_ERRNO_H=1 -DHAVE_SOCKET=1 -D HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H=1 -DHAVE_GETOPT_H=1 -DHAVE_MATH_H=1 -DUSE_DNS -I/usr/include -c graphs.c gcc -Ldb-4.2 -o webalizer webalizer.o hashtab.o linklist.o preserve.o parser.o output.o dns_resolv.o graphs.o -lgd -lpn g -lz -lm -lnsl -ldb dns_resolv.o: In function `dns_resolver': dns_resolv.c:(.text+0x464): undefined reference to `__db185_open_4002' dns_resolv.o: In function `open_cache': dns_resolv.c:(.text+0x143d): undefined reference to `__db185_open_4002' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [webalizer] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r13 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile webalizer-2.01.10-r13.ebuild, line 100: Called die This error is caused by an incompatible version of db185.h, which is installed by BOTH versions of Berkeley DB. The 4.2 version of db185.h is being overwritten when merging version 4.3.x, and thus, causing unresolved symbols. The other way around, when compiling webalizer against the 4.2 version, and then installing 4.3.x, the webalizer executable also crashes complaining about a missing symbol `__db185_open_4002'. "equery list sys-libs/db" actually shows: [I--] [ ~] sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p4 (4.2) [I--] [ ~] sys-libs/db-4.3.29 (4.3) Compiling webalizer against db-4.3.* using the --nodeps switch works well. This is why the dependency should be changed to ">=sys-libs/db-4.2".
P.S.: Another solution would be to remove slotting from sys-libs/db or fix the incompatibilities between 4.2.x and 4.3.x. This seems to be the "real issue".
fixed in -r13
