[users@httpd] Apache 2.2.2 / Berkeley DB 4.3.29 configuration issue on Solaris 10 (sparc)

[st...@bundesbank.de]

Hello list,

while trying to set up Subversion from scratch i ran into some sort of 
problem ...

System is a Sun V240, running Solaris 10.
I tried to compile Berkeley DB (4.3.29), Apache (2.2.2) and Subversion 
(1.3.1) with gcc as provided by Sun (not the packages from sunfreeware), 
this is 
gcc's output:

bash-3.00# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/sfw/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.3/specs
Configured with: 
/gates/sfw10/builds/sfw10-gate/usr/src/cmd/gcc/gcc-3.4.3/configure 
--prefix=/usr/sfw --with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas --with-gnu-as
--with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld --enable-languages=c,c++ 
--enable-shared
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)

Berkeley DB was configured with the following settings:

../dist/configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-cxx -enable-compat185 
--enable-rpc

and compiled/installed without any problems.

Configuration of Apache

./configure --enable-so --enable-mods-shared=most --with-ldap=yes 
--with-ldap-include=/usr/include --with-ldap-lib=/usr/lib
--with-suexec-caller=webservd --enable-authnz-ldap=yes --enable-ldap=yes 
--enable-ssl --with-dbm=db43 --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local

failed with this message:

checking for Berkeley DB 4.3 in /usr/local...
[...]
checking for db.h... yes
checking for -ldb... no
configure: error: Berkeley db4 not found
configure failed for srclib/apr-util

I then had a look at srclib/apr-util/config.log:

configure:24542: checking for db.h
configure:24549: result: yes
configure:24565: checking for -ldb-4.3
configure:24631: gcc -o conftest  -g -O2  -DSOLARIS2=10 
-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include  -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c 
-ldb-4.3 >&5
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
xdr_double                          /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
clnt_create                         /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
xdr_opaque                          /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
clnt_spcreateerror                  /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
xdr_string                          /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
xdr_array                           /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
xdr_bytes                           /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
xdr_u_int                           /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
xdr_free                            /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
clnt_sperror                        /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
xdr_int                             /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.3.so
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:24634: $? = 1
configure: program exited with status 1

After searching the net for a while i found a reference (otherwise 
unrelated to this problem) about a library called 'libnsl' which is needed 
for some socket-related stuff.

Added a LDFLAGS="-lnsl" and the rerun of Apache's configure script was 
successful.
For verification i compiled Berkeley DB with '--disable-rpc' and the 
problem didn't occur.

Anybody else out there who experienced this sort of trouble - and is it a 
bug or a feature?!

Regards,

Steffen Elste


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