You're right, its not that. I've checked the behavior in both cases and it is the same. I removed the directory and did a 'cvs checkout' prior to this last build and so I guess something got into the tree that fixed the problem. Don't know what though. If someone runs into this it could also be that the local directory of libgnupdf is corrupted somehow. Remove it and do a checkout again.
Do you mean that you didn't even need to remove the --no-undefined in the Makefile.am?
