Re: Compiling RPM 4.1 from source

[Scot Mc Pherson <scot linuxfromscratch org>]

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 11:25 am, Mystro wrote:
> I admit I'm a bit of a newbie to linux, so I'm sorry if my question
> seems stupid
>
> My build of RPM seemes to have messed up and now gives me a
> segmentation fault whenever I try to update/install/erase something
> (works fine for -qa --rebuilddb, etc...) so I have decided to upgrade
> from 4.0.4 to 4.1 and see if that helps
>
> naturally I can't upgrade using the rpm -Uvh since it gives me a
> segmentation fault so I am now trying to compile rpm from source I've
> updated libtool, automake and autoconf to the required versions
> and autogen seems to run fine, I then go on to compile by running
> make and after a few good minutes I get the following error:

OK you don't need autogen, that mostly for things being checked out of CVS 
repositories and before you autoconf  & config your sources.

Looks to me like you need to install glibc-devel.

After that, if you still get the last bz* error, you may need to install 
bzip2-devel

-- 
Scot Mc Pherson
Linux From Scratch
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