%-> I downloaded the latest stable tar.gz and gave it the good old "rpm -ta %-> courier-0.28.tar.gz". It runs along quite nicely for awhile, %-> until I get to: %-> %-> gcc -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -I.. -I./.. -o authmysql %-> modauthmysql.o libauthmod.a libauth.a ../libhmac/libhmac.a %-> ./md5/libmd5.a -lcrypt -lmysqlclient -lm %-> libauth.a(authmysqllib.o): In function `do_connect': %-> authmysqllib.o(.text+0x373): undefined reference to `mysql_error' %-> libauth.a(authmysqllib.o): In function `auth_mysql_getuserinfo': %-> authmysqllib.o(.text+0x6ae): undefined reference to `mysql_num_rows' %-> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status %-> make[1]: *** [authmysql] Error 1 %-> make[1]: Leaving directory %-> `/home/philion/rpm/BUILD/courier-0.28/authlib' %-> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 %-> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.15650 (%build) %-> %-> So it seems that there is a problem building the MySQL stuff. I double %-> checked, and I have all the MySQL stuff loaded and running (version %-> 3.23.24-1, according to RPM), including mysql-devel.

This could be the same issue that bit me. I tried a few different options, but it seems that when compiling Courier with gcc 2.96, you can only use the -O2 optflag. Edit your /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file and remove or comment out any other optflags for the target your compiling for.

-- Juha