Re: HELP! building rpm 3.0.4 on a Solaris 8 box...keeps core dumping

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: HELP! building rpm 3.0.4 on a Solaris 8 box...keeps core...:

>Please help!
>
>I'm trying to build rpm 3.0.4 on a solaris 2.8 box, and I get a rpm
>executable that segmentation faults every time I try to install an rpm
>using it.  I've built it against db 2.7.7 with the enable 185
>compatibility option and zlib.  (The build itself didn't work until I
>renamed the db_185.h file to db.h).  I've also tried building it
>against db 1.85 but still can't get it to work.
>
>Any suggestions?

truss rpm -Uvh somepackage.rpm

and pay attention to what's going on when the segfault happens.

Alternately,

	gdb rpm
		set args -Uvh somepackage.rpm
		run
			<segfault happens here>
		where

Tim
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