Cyrus imapd, DB4, RH 9.0 and NPTL

[Stephan Bauer]

Hello,

for me this package works
http://home.teleport.ch/simix/

Regards

Stephan

>On a RH 9.0 system, up2date upgraded glibc from glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm to
>glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm.  Now it appears that anything applications that
>use POSIX mutexes are broken (only db4 so far affecting rpm and cyrus
>imapd).
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>I was able to get rpm to work by doing a --rebuildb.
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>Cyrus imapd will still not work.  I saw that any places in Cyrus imapd
>trying to use db4 would break.  So, I downloaded db4-4.0.14-20.src.rpm and
>tried to do a rpmbuild on it.  Lo and behold, while doing rpmbuild, the
>build bombs during the configure phase complaining about POSIX mutex support
>not being found.  Looking at the spec file, I see that this requires NPTL
>support.  I though that NPTL support was shipped with RH 9.0.  Is this true?
>If so, does updating glibc from 2.3.2-11.9 to 2.3.2-27.9 break it?
>
>I am going to edit the db4 spec file and take out the --enable-mutexes
>option from configure to see if then I can get a good build of DB4 and
>whether that will take care of the DB4 problems that Cyrus imapd is
>complaining about.  Anyone have any thoughts on NPTL in RH 9.0 as regards
>DB4 and whether the glibc update mentioned above break NPTL or not?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help,
>--Moby
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