Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 216434
unnamespaced global symbols in libgmime
Last modified: 2008-05-06 12:52:33 EDT
Description of problem: There are a bunch of unnamespaced global symbols in libgime: 41032c00 T cache_expire_unused 41032d90 T cache_free 41032df0 T cache_new 41032ba0 T cache_node_expire 41032d00 T cache_node_insert 41032c90 T cache_node_lookup 410329b0 T decode_addrspec 41031420 T decode_lwsp 410316c0 T decode_word 410319c0 T internet_address_add_member ... 41031580 T internet_address_unref 410335c0 T list_append_node 410334e0 T list_init 41033500 T list_is_empty 41033520 T list_length 410335e0 T list_node_unlink 410335a0 T list_prepend_node 41033540 T list_unlink_head 41033570 T list_unlink_tail 41034130 T md5_final 410344d0 T md5_get_digest 410343f0 T md5_get_digest_from_file 41033640 T md5_init 41034270 T md5_update 41034850 T memchunk_alloc 410348e0 T memchunk_alloc0 ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gmime-2.2.3-3.fc6.i386 This leads to the following global symbol collisions: Clashes for /usr/lib/libgmime-2.0.so.2.2.3: with /usr/lib/libkopete_oscar.so.2.0.0 => md5_init with /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_mem_cache.so => cache_free with /usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0.0.1 => md5_init with /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7.1.0 => md5_init md5_get_digest (...1 symbols omitted...) md5_get_digest_from_file with /usr/lib/libgs.so.8.15 => md5_init
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