Loads of problems building RPM

[Jim Ribar <jimmacr optonline net>]

Hi.

I've spent the last few days scouring the internet trying to get rpm to 
build on darwin/bsd.  I've tried at least 4 different rpm releases and 
nothing worked.

The closest I've come so far is with rpm-4.0.2.

I've installed db-3.1.4, zlb is installed, gettext-0.11.2, 
autoconf-2.13, and automake-1.4-p5.  Configure actually completes 
properly. I've symbolically linked /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1.17/include  
to /usr/include/db3.  When it tries to build the db3.c, I get the 
following:

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. 
-I../build -I../rpmio   -I../popt -I../misc -I../intl  
-I/usr/local/include    -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Wpointer-arith 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -c db3.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../build -I../rpmio -I../popt 
-I../misc -I../intl -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall 
-Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes 
-Wno-char-subscripts -c db3.c -o db3.o
db3.c: In function `db_fini':
db3.c:141: too many arguments to function
db3.c: In function `db_init':
db3.c:219: structure has no member named `set_func_fsync'
db3.c:237: too many arguments to function
db3.c: In function `db3open':
db3.c:693: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from 
incompatible pointer type
db3.c:705: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from 
incompatible pointer type
db3.c: At top level:
db3.c:299: warning: `db3c_dup' defined but not used
*** Error code 1

Stop in /var/root/rpm-4.0.2/lib.
*** Error code 1

 I've also tried db-3.1.17, which has the same problem.  Am I using the 
wrong version for rpm-4.0.2?

But both rpm-4.0.4 and the version in cvs complain about there being no 
sources in the db3 folder:

configuring in db3
~/rpm-4.0.4/db3
running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
configure: error: cannot find sources in .
mv: rename Makefile to Makefile.orig: No such file or directory
cat: Makefile.orig: No such file or directory
mv: rename db.h to db.h.orig: No such file or directory
cat: db.h.orig: No such file or directory
make: don't know how to make listobjs. Stop
configure: error: ./configure failed for db3


Thanks for any help!

--Jim