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On Wed 28 May 2003 16:10, Alexey Tourbin <at@altlinux.ru> wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:20:06AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > As of the previous main snapshot (19525) on modern linux system, I found > > > out that a2p is linked against too many libraries which it does not > > > actually use: > > > > Yes, a2p has always done that; it's generally been regarded as mostly > > harmless. > > No, it's not harmless. Here's the story. I found out that > > $ ldd /usr/bin/a2p > > uses both libdb.so.3 and libdb.so.4 system libraries (because libndmb.so > on some modern linux systems is mearly a wrapper for libdb.so.3). This > usually leads to a crash bug. Fortunatelly, neither libdb.so.3 nor > libdb.so.4 are used by a2p. Along with lazy runtime binding, it works > ok. > > Anyway, my previous message shows that NONE of those libraries specified > are needed for a2p to compile and run. There's someting to consider... Does Andy's patch fix your problem? -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11. Smoking perl CORE: smokers@perl.org http://archives.develooper.com/daily-build@perl.org/ perl-qa@perl.org send smoke reports to: smokers-reports@perl.org, QA: http://qa.perl.orgThread Previous | Thread Next