Re: Build errors: undefined reference to __ctype_b

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Joe Orton wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:47:13PM -0600, David Summers wrote:
> > I've started getting these errors while trying to build on RedHat 8.0 this
> > last week.
> >
> > What is wierd, is that I've gone back to my 0.20.0 version that built last
> > week and I'm *STILL* getting these errors on it! So....how did it build
> > correctly last week?
>
> Have you upgraded this system to a db4 package from Raw Hide (or
> otherwise not built on 8.0)? I think this is a symptom of having a db4
> library which was built against glibc 2.3 on a system running an earlier
> glibc. "rpm -q glibc db4" output?
>
> > -L/home/dsummers/rpms/build/subversion-0.20.1/subversion/libsvn_wc/.libs
> > -rpath /usr/lib -o svnadmin main.o
> > ../../subversion/libsvn_repos/libsvn_repos-1.la
> > ../../subversion/libsvn_fs/libsvn_fs-1.la
> > ../../subversion/libsvn_delta/libsvn_delta-1.la
> > ../../subversion/libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr-1.la /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.la
> > -lgdbm -ldb-4.0 -lexpat /usr/lib/libapr-0.la -lm -lcrypt -lnsl -ldl
> > /usr/lib/libdb-4.0.a(env_open.o): In function `__dbenv_config':
> > env_open.o(.text+0x882): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> > /usr/lib/libdb-4.0.a(env_open.o): In function `__db_parse':
> > env_open.o(.text+0x13cb): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> > env_open.o(.text+0x1413): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> > /usr/lib/libdb-4.0.a(env_open.o): In function `__db_tmp_open':
> > env_open.o(.text+0x1f58): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> > /usr/lib/libdb-4.0.a(env_region.o): In function `__db_e_remfile':
> > env_region.o(.text+0xe17): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> > /usr/lib/libdb-4.0.a(hash_auto.o)(.text+0x468): more undefined references
> > to `__ctype_b' follow
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[1]: *** [subversion/svnadmin/svnadmin] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dsummers/rpms/build/subversion-0.20.1'
> >
> >

OK, I've now verified that the problem was caused by RedHat's upgrade of
glibc last week from 2.2.x to 2.3.x where they lost some backwards
compatability for the older versions of te glibc package. They have a
BETA version of the fixed glibc 2.3.x available on their
bugzilla.redhat.com site. I suspect that very soon they will release
these changes as new glibc errata.

Thanks for the pointers.

    - David

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