Bug 340361

Summary: build links wrong libdb on 64-bit systems
Product: [Retired] 389 Reporter: Rich Megginson <rmeggins>
Component: Directory ServerAssignee: Rich Megginson <rmeggins>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Viktor Ashirov <vashirov>
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Version: 1.1.0beta   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Rich Megginson 2007-10-19 19:38:17 UTC 
If you have both db4-devel.x86_64 and db4-devel.i386 installed on an x86_64
system, and you have /usr/lib/libdb-4.x.la, the build (libtool) will attempt to
link with /usr/lib/libdb-4.x.so instead of /usr/lib64/libdb-4.x.so.
Comment 1 Rich Megginson 2007-10-19 19:49:46 UTC 
Created attachment 233041 [details]
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Comment 2 Rich Megginson 2007-10-19 20:05:37 UTC 
Created attachment 233071 [details]
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Reviewed by: nhosoi (Thanks!)
Fix Description: Once again, libtool attempts to be helpful but is instead
harmful.  If you have both db4-devel.i386 and db4-devel.x86_64 installed, this
will install /usr/lib/libdb-4.N.la.  If you use libtool to link with -ldb-4.N,
and you do not specify a search path, libtool will attempt to find this library
in it's default search path, which is something like
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64/blahblahblah/../../../lib.	This will find
/usr/lib/libdb-4.N.la and will use the information in that file and link the
object with /usr/lib/libdb-4.N.so, instead of just passing -ldb-4.N through to
the linker which is what it ought to do (darn libtool).  In order to make
libtool do the right thing, we must pass in -L$libdir -ldb-4.N to libtool so
that it will use $libdir first in its search path.
Platforms tested: RHEL5 x86_64, RHEL4 x86_64
Flag Day: yes - autotool file changes
Doc impact: no
Comment 3 Rich Megginson 2008-01-02 22:10:37 UTC 
Verified.  DS builds fine on RHEL5 x86_64 if both db4-devel.i386 and
db4-devel.x86_64 are installed.