Re: RPM build error on FreeBSD (+ fix)

[Armijn Hemel <armijn deepthought geo uu nl>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:19:18PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

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> > The attached patch makes the configure work on FreeBSD. I tested it on
> > Linux (Red Hat 9) as well, but it never hurts if someone could verify
> > it.
> > [...]
> 
> Unfortunately and unexpectedly, this still doesn't work on
> all platform. For OpenPKG we discovered (don't ask me which
> particular platform it actually was), that not all Bourne-Shells
> like embedded TAB chars in here-documents (as it is the case
> in this code). We did a very ugly hack as you can see in
> http://cvs.openpkg.org/openpkg-src/openpkg/rpm.patch.porting under
> "Index: db3/configure". As you can see, the world is wonderful
> full of strange problems... ;-)

Eehw. I had dinner just before I saw that hack, not good ;-)

> Additionally, if you want RPM to get building and working under FreeBSD,
> you also need some more portability patches from the same OpenPKG
> RPM patch file. See patch parts annotated with "Add support for BSD
> getmntinfo(3)." and "rt/pthread" in the above file.

It's mainly the Python bindings I need. It barfs in the beecrypt with
unknown references to "swapu32".

armijn

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