On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:29, Severin Greimel wrote: > I tried to build 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3-1 on woody and ran across the following > problem: > > When configured with "--with-system-db" and "--with-system-myspell", the > build > fails due to undefined symbols when using backports of both libdb3 and > libmyspell3 that are built with gcc-2.95. It works if I use gcc-3.0 to build > the backports, but this seems undesirable to me on an otherwise pure > 2.95-system. > > I eventually removed the "--with-system-db" and "--with-system-myspell" flags > to make it work. Maybe these should only be used when not building on woody, > also since libmyspell3 doesn't even exist on woody.
That sounds reasonable to me, since when backporting it helps to try and reduce the number of extra dependencies (like I did with fontconfig and libfreetype). Did you need to make any more changes to the packages? Thanks, Chris