How to install/initialize RPM from source???

[<fwells olg com>]

Does anybody know how to initialize the rpm database files (Basenames, etc...) 
after building and installing RPM (latest) from source? 
 
rpm --initdb <-- only creates the /var/lib/rpm/Packages file. 
 
Interestingly, even on a working rpm system, I get the same results after  
doing the following: 
 
  cd /var/lib 
  mv rpm rpm.bak 
  mkdir rpm 
  rpm --initdb 
 
What am I missing here?  Can't find any docs that talk about initializing 
the requisite db files. 
 
 
Thanks, 
Fred Wells