I've had problems with building gnome packages before.  They went away when
I rebuilt some of the dependencies, like gtk+, glib, etc.  That might be a
good place to start.

On 3/12/02 13:20, "Chris Devers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've been trying & failing to update the Gnome packages I have installed,
> and I can't figure out what's going wrong. I piped the build process to a
> log file, so if it would help anyone I can provide that, but the relevant
> section is probably the tail, which I cite (ridiculously long lines --
> sorry about this) below. Citing the final, failed steps:
> 
<snip for length>

>   /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
>   ___db185_open
>   make[2]: *** [gnome-dump-metadata] Error 1
>   make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>   make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>   ### make failed, exit code 2
>   Failed: compiling gnome-libs-1.4.1.4-2 failed
> 
> I have pending updates to gnome-core, gnome-libs, and gtkhtml. All three
> of them are failing in substantially the same way -- they'll be satisfied
> with their dependencies, successfully work through configuration, then
> start the 'make' step. This will seem to work for a while (it could run
> for anywhere from a good half hour to much longer than that even), but
> then will bomb out with these undefined symbols error with __db185_open.
> What does this mean and how can I fix it?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

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