Re: rpm on FreeBSD and Solaris

[Liguo Song <liguo song vanderbilt edu>]

Try the OpenPKG at www.openpkg.org. It supports more platform and is
supposed to be fully compactible with RPM.

Good luck.


Liguo (Leo)



On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Anshuman Kanwar wrote:

> (Sorry for prev mail, resending with new subject)
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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