Bug 287218

Summary:	apache-tools fails to build with sys-libs/db-4.8.24
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Apache Team - Bugzilla Reports <apache-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	N/A
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Bradbury 2009-10-01 10:10:41 UTC

In particular it fails to build at least "htpasswd" because the command to load it includes an explicit "-ldb-4.7".  I am in the process of de-installing various versions of db 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --unmerge (<) sys-libs/db-4.8.24, e.g. sys-libs/db-4.7.25_p4 and earlier
2. emerge apache-tools
3. emerge fails

Actual Results:  
Emerge fails with:
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb-4.7

Expected Results:  
Emerge should work.

(a) If apache-tools requires a db of a specific version then the ebuild should have a dependency that requires that it be installed.  (b) Outdated versions of db should not be "required" (assuming recent versions provide upward compatibility).  The ebuild / configure components of other packages issue commands to determine which "sys-libs/db" is the active (most recent) version and use that with load commands.

Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2009-10-01 14:09:35 UTC

Did you rebuild apr-util before building apache-tools ?

Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-02 19:53:14 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 285522 ***