Re: [Pan-users] All the sudden, my Pan v0.12 broke on both of my Red Hat Linux 7.x boxes!

[Phillip Pi]

> On Tuesday 25 June 2002 00:13, Phillip Pi wrote:
> 
> > So, does anyone know what's up with this? I guess Christophe is
> > currently busy to answer my post. :(
> 
>       You upgraded your packages... did you recompile Pan against the new 
> library versions?  AFAIK, "undefined symbol" means it was compiled 
> against something, which it is therefore trying to use, but the 
> installed version of that library does not contain the functionality 
> it's trying to access.
>       I'd say, "make uninstall", "make clean", then ./configure and rebuild. 
> (Or, possibly, "rpm --rebuild ...", "rpm -Uv ..." depending on how you 
> build stuff.  :)
> 
>       If you did *not* compile this (i.e., installed from binary packages) 
> then I'd advise looking for an updated Pan package that was built 
> against the libraries you have installed.
> 
>       I've also heard of problems with binary packages, caused by the person 
> who builds ProgramX.rpm not using the same compiler version as the 
> person who build LibraryY.rpm.  Many distributions (such as Mandrake) 
> are using GCC version 3.something for their new-release stuff, but many 
> folks (such as myself) have not upgraded from version 2.96.  I have no 
> idea whether your trouble falls into that category, though.  :/

I used RPMs to upgrade. Here is what I don't understand, both systems' Pan 
were working after the upgrades. The last time I used it was yesterday 
morning. I went out for a few hours. I wanted to use Pan again, and they 
no longer worked. What could possibly be changed? One machine was off when 
I was out while the other one was on. I don't get it. Is there something 
updating in the background to break something?