Bug 38598 – emerge postfix fails if sys-libs/db-4.xxx is installed

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mertijn Berger 2004-01-18 06:58:22 UTC]

cant emerge postfix (both 1.1.xxand 2.xx )with or without ldap support if db-4.xxx is installed
can emerge it if I remove sys-libs/db-4 first

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-01-18 07:54:36 UTC]

Could you attach the output of emerge? While my postfix has been on my system for some while now I never experienced db related problems.

[Comment 2 Max Kalika (RETIRED) 2004-01-18 10:20:27 UTC]

Also please paste your emerge --info output and specify the exact versions of the related packages (db, openldap, postfix) which you're trying to install.

Works fine on my end:

ike root # qpkg -I -v sys-libs/db
sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 *
sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r9 *
sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 *

ike root # qpkg -I -v openldap
net-nds/openldap-2.0.27-r4 *

ike root # qpkg -I -v postfix
net-mail/postfix-2.0.16-r1 *

[Comment 3 Natanael Copa 2004-01-26 04:37:09 UTC]

Same thing happens here, without ldap.

nc-gentoo root # qpkg -I -v sys-libs/db
sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 *
sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r10 *
sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r3 *
sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 *

Here are the last lines in the compile:

gcc -DHAS_PCRE -DUSE_SSL -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -I/usr/include/sasl -DDEF_CONFIG_DIR=\"/etc/postfix\" -DDEF_DAEMON_DIR=\"/usr/lib/postfix\" -DDEF_PROGRAM_DIR=\"/usr/lib/postfix\" -DDEF_MANPAGE_DIR=\"/usr/share/man\" -DDEF_README_DIR=\"/usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.18/readme\" -DDEF_SAMPLE_DIR=\"/usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.18/sample\" -g -march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions -I. -I../../include -DLINUX2 -c master_flow.c
ar rv libmaster.a single_server.o multi_server.o trigger_server.o master_proto.o mail_flow.o
ar: creating libmaster.a
a - single_server.o
a - multi_server.o
a - trigger_server.o
a - master_proto.o
a - mail_flow.o
ranlib libmaster.a
cp libmaster.a ../../lib/libmaster.a
ranlib ../../lib/libmaster.a
gcc -DHAS_PCRE -DUSE_SSL -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -I/usr/include/sasl -DDEF_CONFIG_DIR=\"/etc/postfix\" -DDEF_DAEMON_DIR=\"/usr/lib/postfix\" -DDEF_PROGRAM_DIR=\"/usr/lib/postfix\" -DDEF_MANPAGE_DIR=\"/usr/share/man\" -DDEF_README_DIR=\"/usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.18/readme\" -DDEF_SAMPLE_DIR=\"/usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.18/sample\" -g -march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions -I. -I../../include -DLINUX2 -o master master.o master_conf.o master_ent.o master_sig.o master_avail.o master_spawn.o master_service.o master_status.o master_listen.o master_vars.o master_wakeup.o master_flow.o ../../lib/libglobal.a ../../lib/libutil.a -L/usr/lib -lpcre -ldl -lcrypt -lpthread -lpam -lssl -lcrypto -lsasl2 -ldb -lnsl -lresolv
../../lib/libutil.a(dict_db.o)(.text+0xbe): In function `dict_db_open':
//dict_db.c:468: undefined reference to `db_version_4000'
../../lib/libutil.a(dict_db.o)(.text+0x177)://dict_db.c:543: undefined reference to `db_create_4000'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
distcc[11131] ERROR: compile on localhost failed
make: *** [master] Error 1
make: *** [update] Error 1

!!! ERROR: net-mail/postfix-2.0.18 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 138, Exitcode 2
!!! compile problem

[Comment 4 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-01-27 04:04:45 UTC]

Could you attach the full build log. It seems that libutil.a has been compiled with a version of db that is not db4, or links in something that has been compiled with the headers of db4.0 (but not links against this).

Also ls /usr/include/db.h -l should give a symlink to /usr/include/db4.1/db.h

[Comment 5 Max Kalika (RETIRED) 2004-01-28 08:32:58 UTC]

*** Bug 39185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Max Kalika (RETIRED) 2004-01-28 09:26:12 UTC]

*** Bug 38898 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Max Kalika (RETIRED) 2004-01-28 09:29:46 UTC]

According to bug 38898, the fix is to re-emerge db after which the symlinks are all proper.  Can we write this off as a one-time db bug or is the issue deeper than that?

Btw, it worked fine here with three db versions emerged and then postfix.  The order was:

emerge =db-4.0*
emerge =db-4.1*
emerge postfix

All compiled fine:

server ~ # qpkg -I -v sys-libs/db
sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 *
sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r10 *
sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r3 *
sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r3 *

server ~ # qpkg -I -v postfix
net-mail/postfix-2.0.18 *

[Comment 8 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-01-28 10:00:58 UTC]

The symlinks should be automatically updated with newer versions of db. Merging or unmerging a current db should fix the links.

[Comment 9 Max Kalika (RETIRED) 2004-02-06 09:02:43 UTC]

ok, closing, thanks Paul and everyone.