Hello.


I'm trying to compile db-3.2.9 with --enable-tcl to run tests on it.
But compilation fails with the following error message:

..c -fPIC -DPIC -o util_sig.lo
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link cc -o db_archive \
db_archive.lo util_sig.lo libdb-3.2.la -lpthread -L/usr/lib
-ltcl8.4 -ldl -lieee -lm
cc -o .libs/db_archive db_archive.lo util_sig.lo .libs/libdb-3.2.so
-lpthread -L/usr/lib -ltcl8.4 -ldl -lieee -lm -lpthread -L/usr/lib
-ltcl8.4 -ldl -lieee -lm
/usr/lib/libieee.a.data+0x0): multiple definition of `_LIB_VERSION'
/usr/lib/libieee.a.data+0x0): first defined here
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [db_archive] Error 1

Does anybody knows how to fix that?

TIA,
Peter.

Hi Peter,

What I am sure of, is that you're linking the same library twice. Are
you sure that you didn't put -lieee option via config file for example?
(try to remove it)
Or it might be possible that the compiler automatically links that file
in.

Regards,
Bogdan Coman, Oracle

Thank you for your answer, Bogdan.

Of course the problem is because -lieee is mentioned twice. And the
second time it comes from tclConfig.sh:

TCL_LIBS='-ldl -lieee -lm'

That is the reason I have problems only when tcl is enabled. Seems that
the build system is not working with new tcl library, but I did not
found time for proper fix (possibly aclocal/tcl.m4 requires
modifications)... I've asked because I hoped that this is a known issue
with the known fix.

Any way, thank you for your time.