Forwarding this from a downstream bug report:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198211

libgnomepilotd, libgnomepilotdconduit, and libgpilotdcm do not link to their required libraries as specified by the Makefile variable GNOME_PILOT_LIBS.

To reproduce (in an RPM-based distribution):

   $ rpm -ql gnome-pilot-devel | grep lib.*so | xargs ldd -r | grep missing

A partial solution to this problem was offered in bug #360190 under the pretense of making --as-needed work, although the problem is more severe than that.

Even with the following patch applied, there's still a few outliers:

   $ rpm -ql gnome-pilot-devel | grep lib.*so | xargs ldd -r | grep missing
   undefined symbol: gnome_pilot_conduit_sync_type_int_to_str      
   (/usr/lib/libgpilotdcm.so)
   undefined symbol: gnome_pilot_conduit_sync_type_str_to_int      
   (/usr/lib/libgpilotdcm.so)
   undefined symbol: gnome_pilot_conduit_set_name  (/usr/lib/libgpilotdcm.so)

I suspect this to be related to the build-order problem between libgpilotdCM and gpilotd, as mentioned in the README file.