Bug 340080

Summary:	sys-libs/gdbm: libgdbm_compat.dylib isn't linked to libgdbm.dylib on Mac OS
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Charles Davis <cdavis5x>
Component:	Prefix Support	Assignee:	Gentoo Prefix <prefix>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	OS X
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	223865, 298674
Bug Blocks:

Description Charles Davis 2010-10-07 17:54:36 UTC

On Mac OS, the linker NEVER links in unused libs. For this reason, building dev-lang/python with USE=gdbm fails in the same way as bug 298674.

Unfortunately, there is no way to turn this off (at least that I know of, and I even read the manpage!), so the workaround for bug 298674 won't work.

I used otool to look at libgdbm_compat.dylib, and I found that it is NOT linked to libgdbm.dylib:

$ otool -L ~/Gentoo/usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.dylib
/Users/chip/Gentoo/usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.dylib:
	/Users/chip/Gentoo/usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.3.dylib (compatibility version 4.0.0, current version 4.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 125.2.0)

That's odd. Now why would that be?

Comment 1 Charles Davis 2010-11-01 00:54:24 UTC

Ping. Any ideas?

Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2010-11-01 16:22:07 UTC

please update to gdbm-1.8.3-r04.1, I reverted the hack from bug #223865, because it's causing this behaviour

Comment 3 Charles Davis 2010-11-01 20:57:52 UTC

Yep, that fixed it. Thanks again.