Re: Has anyone been able to build a working version of rpm-4.0.3for AIX 4.3.3.0?

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

In regard to: Has anyone been able to build a working version of rpm-4.0.3...:

>I have been able to successfully build rpm-4.0.3 from source on IRIX
>6.5, Solaris 8, and of course Linux.  However, I can not get it build
>correctly on AIX 4.3.3.0.  I am able to compile and link rpm, but when
>executing it does not work.  I get core dumps, or the best I have been
>able to get is a executable that runs, but always shows the "--help"
>option no matter what options are specified.  Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.

I've downloaded 4.0.3 for build testing here, but haven't gotten to looking
at it yet.

What version of libtool is it using?  I ask because libtool libraries on
AIX often have weird dependency problems.  I think a lot of that is
much-improved in libtool 1.4.x, but I don't know -- it's been a while since
I've played with it on AIX, though I plan to "soon".

My recommendation is that you try building rpm on AIX using the

	--disable-shared

argument to configure, and see if that changes anything.  This is just a
shot in the dark, though -- the problem could be somewhere else entirely.

Tim
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