Hello, A hint from Sarfraaz Ahmed about config.log hint and a careful look at my distro's srpm has helped me solve the problem. It was in libdb's use of pthreads.
If anybody is interested, the details are below. I have found the problem in config.log. Here it is. === configure:11924: result: 3.1.17 configure:11927: checking for db3 library name configure:11965: gcc -o conftest -march=athlon -I/home/misha/qqq/include conftest.c /home/misha/qqq/lib/libdb.a >&5 /home/misha/qqq/lib/libdb.a(mut_pthread.o)(.text+0xc1): In function `__db_pthread_mutex_init': : undefined reference to `pthread_condattr_setpshared' /home/misha/qqq/lib/libdb.a(mut_pthread.o)(.text+0xdb): In function `__db_pthread_mutex_init': : undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_init' /home/misha/qqq/lib/libdb.a(mut_pthread.o)(.text+0xf7): In function `__db_pthread_mutex_init': : undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_setpshared' /home/misha/qqq/lib/libdb.a(mut_pthread.o)(.text+0x12c): In function `__db_pthread_mutex_init': : undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_destroy' /home/misha/qqq/lib/libdb.a(mut_pthread.o)(.text+0x1d5): In function `__db_pthread_mutex_lock': : undefined reference to `pthread_mutex_trylock' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:11968: $? = 1 === This seems to be a problem within libdb (some pthreads-related stuff). The distro's source RPM has a patch to make libdb NOT use pthreads. On applying the patch, the problem went out the window. Well, this was probably my mistake in not applying the distro patches. I wanted to make my future hack (bugfix) to be usable outside the distro. But this was a lesson; next time, if something fails to build, I'll try distro patches first, and the list only if that fails. I will also learn to look in config.log when applicable :) Thanks for the lesson in "unix" hacking. And yes I am a dummy. But I still hope to try and catch that bug. Again: THANKS! Especially to Sarfraaz Ahmed and Not Zed. Yours, Mikhail Ramendik _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
