Re: rebuilding the rpm database.

[Liguo Song <Liguo Song vanderbilt edu>]

OpenPKG is supposed to work on these platform, and it is supposed to be fully 
compatible with RPM. Check it out at www.openpkg.org.


Liguo (Leo)



Anshuman Kanwar wrote:
> I am trying to build rpm 4.0.4 on platforms besides Linux. Seems to not
> work. 
>
> Are there any pathes out there ?
>
> Thanks,
> -ansh
>
> ::FreeBSD::
>
> wget ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
> gunzip rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
> tar -xvf rpm-4.0.4.tar 
> cd rpm-4.0.4
> ./configure 
>
>   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
>
>
>
>
> ::Solaris 9::
>
> wget ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
> gunzip rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
> tar -xvf rpm-4.0.4.tar 
> cd rpm-4.0.4
> ./configure 
>
>   configure: error: cannot find sources in .
>   mv: cannot access Makefile
>   cat: cannot open Makefile.orig
>   mv: cannot access db.h
>   cat: cannot open db.h.orig
>   make: *** No rule to make target `listobjs'.  Stop.
>   configure: error: ./configure failed for db3
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rpm-list mailing list
> Rpm-list@redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list