Re: RPM build error on FreeBSD (+ fix)

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Armijn Hemel wrote:

> 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 ;-)
>  

Blame sed, not rpm. db4 is deliberately lightly wired into rpm so that 
developers
can easily build against external db4 if they are so inclined.

>  
>
> > 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".
>  

You have not identified which version of rpm you are trying to build.

If rpm-4.2.1, then you want external beecrypt-3.0.1 and elfutils-0.84. 
*Really*.

HTH

73 de  Jeff