gmime no longer builds on leopard

[Boey Maun Suang]

Hi Michael,

Sorry to take so long to reply to this; unfortunately I don't  
currently find the time to read macports-users much, so I miss posts  
that I really should reply to.

> A few days ago I installed pan2 and all its dependencies.  I'm  
> having problems trying to compile wine so I deleted /opt/local and  
> reinstalled macports.  Now, gmime won't build.  I get the following  
> error:

<snip />

> ld: warning, duplicate dylib /opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib
> ld: duplicate symbol _g_bit_nth_lsf in .libs/gmime-charset.o  
> and .libs/gmime.o
>
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


Since you say that it fails on Leopard, and since I don't get this  
problem on 10.4.11, it looks to me like it's a bug with Leopard's  
linker (the ld program).  If others can help me confirm that it does  
indeed occur on Leopard but not on Tiger or Panther, then it'd be  
great if you could report it upstream to the developer of gmime.

It may well be, however, that he won't change the upstream source,  
arguing that it's a bug with Leopard's linker and so not his problem  
(a view which I can sympathise with, though I wouldn't agree with  
it).  If that's the case, I think I'd be able to implement a patch by  
myself; it wouldn't be elegant, but there wouldn't be any  
significantly better ways around it either.

So, others can let me know whether or not they can reproduce the  
error, that'd be great.  We can then look at whether or not to report  
this upstream.

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

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Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname)
Email: boeyms at macports dot org