[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot 1.0 make

[Bob Hope]

Andrew Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Hope wrote:
>   
>> When trying to build dovecot with MySQL support I got the following:
>>
>> /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x5c): In function 
>> `sha1_result':
>> : multiple definition of `sha1_result'
>> ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x880):/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha3/src/lib/sha1.c:233: 
>> first defined here
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: 
>> Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 158 in 
>> ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in 
>> /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha3/src/auth'
>> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha3/src'
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha3'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>     Savage
>>     
>
> Quote from Timo on this:
>
> ***
> MySQL library is being stupid and exporting symbols that can easily
> conflict with symbols created by the programs using the library.
>
> I'm not sure if MySQL has fixed this already or not. Maybe upgrading the
> library might help. If not, I'd suggest complaining to MySQL people
> about this since it most likely won't be causing problems to just
> Dovecot.
>
> Alternatively you can just change all Dovecot's sha1_result symbols in
> source code to something else.
> ***
>
> If you need a patch to change the dovecot symbols let me know.
>
> Regards
> Andrew
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>
>   
    A patch would be nice as I'm sure MySQL won't give two sh**s about 
this. If you've got the time I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

    Savage