Reasonably stock, fresh RHES 3 Update 8 installation. RHES 3.0 Update 8 Deployment Snafu, a discrepancy between the 32 and 64 bit libraries as shipped. This specifically trips up netsnmp, but it's likely to trip up any package that builds for 64 bits against librpm*. Not an issue, but for reference; There are no /usr/lib/librpm*.la files. There are four /usr/lib64/librpm*.la files. Issue; these point to dependency_libs including /usr/lib64/libbeecrypt.la There is no .la file. /usr/lib64/libbeecrypt.so and /usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so are missing, but /usr/lib64/libbeecrypt.so.6.1.0 and /usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.1.0 and their .so.6 files are present. Most flavors of libtool are unable to resolve this situation. No libbeecrypt.la exists, so libtool dies. -lbeecrypt fails as well, since the symlink for libbeecrypt.so (unnumbered) is missing. By the time libtool is done failing to resolve these situations, it falls back on /usr/lib/, which is altogether wrong for 64 bit compiles. Unsure the root of the problem; is it the presence of the librpm.la files? Or the absence of libbeecrypt.la? Or the absense of libbecrypt.so and the mislinkage from librpm*.la to the libbecrypt.la?
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