Re: Problem build 4.0.3 on Tru64 5.1A

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> said:
> The other problem I've run into is that when building with the included
> db3, no check is made to see if the thread library is needed (-lpthread
> is needed with db3 on Tru64), so the make bombs trying to link
> tools/dumpdb.  For my build, I've changed configure to always link with
> the thread library, but I don't know what the "best" way to do this
> would be (since you can't do the test at configure time for the included
> library).

Just wanted to add one other thing that kept rpm-4.0.3 from building on
Tru64 5.1A.  When doing the static link of rpm, you must explicitly
include "-lexc" (it is supposed to be included anywhere you use
"-lpthread" for DECthreads but libpthread.so pulls it in automatically).
I just added -lexc in configure.in to the __pthread_mutex_trylock test
(since that is pretty much for Tru64 5.x anyway), but there is probably
a better way to do it (maybe try to do a static link of a threaded
program, but I'm not sure how to force a static link in autoconf).

With those changes (work around db->stat in rpmdb/db3.c, adding the
thread library to links with db3, and added -lexc to the thread
library), I'm able to build and run rpm-4.0.3 under Tru64 5.1A.  The
only software I had to build/install was gcc-3.0.2, zlib-1.1.3, and
(GNU) make-3.79.1.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.