Debian/Berk db 4.1 breakage in current 21.4

My standard build which autodetects most features, and in particular Berkeley db and PostgreSQL, is failing to link as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ database.o(.text+0x1d7): In function `Fopen_database': /playpen/Projects/XEmacs/21.4/src/database.c:697: undefined reference to `db_cre ate_4001' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [xemacs] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/playpen/Projects/XEmacs/Builds/21.4/src' make: *** [src] Error 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What is happening is that on my platform, libpq (the PostgreSQL stub library) is dynamically linked to libdb3. I believe this is Debian- specific damage. This means that the link test for char dbcreate (); main () { db_create(); } in configure _succeeds_ so that -ldb is _not_ added to the linker_flags. Then database.c #include's <db.h>, which decorates function names with version information, and the link fails, as you see. This doesn't affect 21.5 because PostgreSQL's libraries are _not_ linked with in other config tests, they are tracked separately. Probable minimally invasive workaround: move the Berkeley db detection code earlier than the PostgreSQL detection code. It is possible that this will cause subtle runtime breakage for users with libpq linked to libdb3 and libdb 4.0 installed as the default libdb.so. (If there's breakage for libdb 4.1 users, it will be obvious at the link stage because of the version decoration scheme.) More correct fix involves breaking out the libraries as is done in 21.5. Fully correct fix is probably not possible, because Debian is deliberately using techniques that confuse configure. Vin, what do you think? I'll work up a patch later. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.