>>>>> "Herbert" == Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes: Herbert> Thus you must change libsasl's soname when you link it Herbert> against a new db library. Since this requires Herbert> coordination between the various Linux distributions, it Herbert> is definitely not an easy thing to do. -- Debian Clearly while you are at it, you should make sure that libsasl does not export any db3 symbols so you never get screwed this way again.