Cyrus imapd, DB4, RH 9.0 and NPTL

[Mobeen Azhar]

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).

I was able to get rpm to work by doing a --rebuildb.

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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