<DIV>Well, I finally got it to compile in the end with the Sun linkder ld. Setting environment variable </DIV>
<DIV>CFLAGS=-fPIC did the trick. Even though only the libdb.a was created as usual, all the </DIV>
<DIV>shared libraries linked happily to it. I don't know why. I found the kdevelop 3.1.91, i.e. the 3.2 </DIV>
<DIV>beta, addded this flag when compiling libdb. Then all information I could find on the web </DIV>
<DIV>indicates that that is a bug fix intended to fix an amd64 linking issue even though the </DIV>
<DIV>symptom appears to be identical to what I had seen on sparc. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>rain</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><p>
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