Re: rpm 4.0.4 installation problem

["Matthew R . MacIntyre" <matt pipfield ca>]

* Dimitris Tsagkatakis (tsagkas@linuxmail.org) wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i m trying to compile the rpm 4.0.4 tarball, but during the "./configure" process, i get the following lines:
> 
> configuring in db3
> running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> configure: error: cannot find sources in .
> 
> note that i've already installed the new db with no problem.
> 
> i tried giving ./configure --srcdir=/usr/src/rpm-4.04 or --srcdir=/usr/src/rpm-4.04/db3 but the problem remained.

I had that problem once.  It went away when I did ./configure --prefix=/usr.

If you don't want to install the stuff under /usr, try linking the files it is
looking for (/usr/include/db.h /usr/include/db3/db.h /usr/include/db3/db_185.h
/usr/include/db3/db_cxx.h, etc) to /usr/local, and see if that will work.

*shrug*

Good luck!

-matt