From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 13:28:50 CST

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Stephen McHenry:
> > > Now, I'm running up against the linking problem that was in the second
> > > half (when I tried SSL/TLS w/o SASL). It appears to be looking for
> > > something it can't find, but I'm not sure what lib dlsym, dlerror,
> > > dlopen and dlclose are in...
> >
> > Postfix builds out of the box on Linux. Your compilation environment
> > appears to be incomplete. I suggest you upgrade to a complete one.
>
> Hmm... well, apparently a freshly built "complete" Fedora 5
> installation is also incomplete, as it failed there too....

FYI, Fedora Core 5 has not been fresh for three releases.

> But, I did figure it out, and thought posting the solution here might
> help anyone else who has this problem...
>
> Turns out, it was not finding libdl.a.
>
> libdl.a _was_ present in /usr/lib, so it was just a matter of adding
> it.to the AUXLIBS and that cleared up the problem.

I routinely build Postfix on Linux without needing to add libdl.a
manually to the library list, and I have not heard from other people
who need to do that, either.

        Wietse

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