Hi!
Tim, what do you think if we rename our own copy of bdb with 'libmy-bdb'
just to ensure that we link with our copy of bdb ?
Regards,
Monty
>>>>> "Dave" == Dave FitzPatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> On 19 Jun 2001, at 13:36, Sinisa Milivojevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dave FitzPatrick writes:
>> > I recently set about upgrading our MySQL install on a Compaq Tru64 4.0f
>> > Alpha box from 3.22.25 to 3.23.38.
>> >
Dave> [snip]
>> I edited sql/Makefile and replaced the two occurrences of:
>> >
>> > -L$(top_builddir)/bdb/build_unix -ldb
>> >
>> > with
>> >
>> > $(top_builddir)/bdb/build_unix/libdb.a
>> >
>> > and the make proceded without further incident.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure if this is a problem with Compaq's ld or something else,
>> > but I found it curious.
>>
>> Definitely looks like Compaq linker bug. Some GNU linker versions have
>> a similar bug.
>>
>> Contact Compaq and submit the info. We have had good experience with a
>> software engineer from Compaq that is maintaining their linker.
Dave> It looks like the issue is that the linker looks for the shared version
Dave> of a library in all library directories first, so it's finding
Dave> /usr/shlib/libdb.so and linking against that.
Dave> It seems you can pass a parameter of -oldstyle_liblookup to ld that
Dave> forces it to look for shared libraries and then archives in each
Dave> directory before moving on to the next.
Dave> I tried adding
Dave> --with-mysqld-ldflags='-Xlinker -oldstyle_liblookup'
Dave> but this ended up putting it in the wrong order on the resultant
Dave> command to ld so that it sees it as an additional -o parameter and
Dave> causes an error.
Dave> Similar problems with defining CXXLDFLAGS.
Dave> The workaround I finally used successfully was to create a shell script
Dave> named ld in a directory that is in my path before /usr/bin which
Dave> contains:
Dave> #!/bin/sh
Dave> /usr/bin/ld -oldstyle_liblookup $*
Dave> D=
Dave> --
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