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Re: rpm 4.0.2 Build Problem (was Re: Installing Berkeley DB 3.2.9)
- To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Subject: Re: rpm 4.0.2 Build Problem (was Re: Installing Berkeley DB 3.2.9)
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:55:59 -0400
- Cc: shabbir at talib dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
Chuck,
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:15:26PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Note that the current version does the same thing that your 2.7.7 did.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the rpm source has hardcoded constructs such as:
> >
> > #include <db3/db.h>
>
> Since rpm is more-or-less maintained by Red Hat, I wouldn't be surprised
> if the official rpm source code depended on the installed structure of
> the db3/db2/db1 libraries under Red Hat's "harmonization".
>
> > I was able to workaround this problem with mkdirs and symlinks, but I did
> > this after configure. Possibly by not having the environment "correct"
> > before I ran configure caused rpm to configure itself improperly.
>
> Absolutely. If you rearrange your directory structure between
> "configuring" and "making" stuff will definitely break.
I followed your advice and read the spec file from the Red Hat db 3.2.9
RPM. I used the information gleaned to post process make install to
match the harmonization mentioned above. Then I reran configure on rpm.
Finally, after some head banging I managed to "build" rpm.
It appears that the rpm (4.0.2) package is very Linux centric. I will
entertain posting a patch once I figure out the right way to correct all
of the issue. I guess that it is time to learn automake. Sigh...
BTW, the test suite also seems very Linux centric -- hardcoded paths,
expected output such as "ld-linux.so.2", etc. Did you every try to run
the test suite for your rpm 3.0.3 package? If so, what were the results?
Thanks,
Jason
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