Bug 597502 – dev-vcs/subversion-1.9.4 fails to build with sys-libs/db-6.0: subversion/libsvn_fs_base/.libs/libsvn_fs_base-1.so: undefined reference to `db_create_4002'

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dennis Nezic 2016-10-19 01:56:45 UTC]

dev-vcs/subversion-1.9.4 wasn't able to compile with sys-libs/db-6.0:

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/bin/sh "/var/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/subversion-1.9.4/work/subversion-1.9.4/libtool" --tag=CC --silent --mode=compile x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -std=c90  -DLINUX -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE   -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe   -pthread -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe  -I./subversion/include -I./subversion -I/usr/include/apr-1   -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/include/db4.2 -I/usr/include/db6.0 -I/usr/include/serf-1   -o subversion/svn/upgrade-cmd.lo -c subversion/svn/upgrade-cmd.c
/bin/sh "/var/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/subversion-1.9.4/work/subversion-1.9.4/libtool" --tag=CC --silent --mode=compile x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -std=c90  -DLINUX -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE   -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe   -pthread -march=k8 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe  -I./subversion/include -I./subversion -I/usr/include/apr-1   -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/include/db4.2 -I/usr/include/db6.0 -I/usr/include/serf-1   -o subversion/svn/util.lo -c subversion/svn/util.c
/var/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/subversion-1.9.4/work/subversion-1.9.4/subversion/libsvn_fs_base/.libs/libsvn_fs_base-1.so: undefined reference to `db_create_4002'

I have both db-4.2 and db-6.0 installed on my system. I had to set (as I was advised to at the beginning of the ebuild) SVN_BDB_VERSION="4.2" in my make.conf, and then things worked. (Things didn't work if I set it to "6.0".)

I'm not sure if the dependencies should restrict berkeley db to version 4?

[Comment 1 Tomáš Mózes 2016-10-20 07:54:47 UTC]

Please attach the full build log and the output of emerge --info.