Re: [rpm-list] problems compiling rpm on solaris

["Edward Quick" <edwardquick hotmail com>]

> On 29 December 2006 at 14:37, "Edward Quick" <edwardquick hotmail com> 
> wrote:
>
> > I'm having problems compiling rpm 4.2 for Solaris 8. I'm getting quite 
> far
> > (after renaming the elfutils directory - advised in
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2003-June/msg00182.html) ...
>
> Any reason you're choosing 4.2?  I managed to get 4.4.6 to build
> on Solaris 2.8 (sparc).  It was a bit of an ordeal, as I'm
> sure you're finding out for yourself.  I've been delinquent in
> publishing my recipe here.  I built rpm 4.4.6 to put its files in
> my own account as I don't have root privileges on that system.
> One thing to be cautious of is that 4.4.6 is the first version
> that doesn't read old rpm formats, right Jeff?  The good news is
> that the rpm2cpio that comes with 4.4.6 still will.  Would my
> recipe be of use to you?
>
> Cheers....
>
> P.S.:	What's the right way to publish patches that get rpm to
> 	build on Solaris?  Different lists have different
> 	conventions.  It might also be useful for me to publish
> 	my spec file.
>
> --
> Kevin
Kevin, A thousand thank-yous! I'm new to rpm, and struggled to find the 
source code to be honest. I just need a version where I can run rpm --import 
and rpm --check-sig so I can port a script I've written to Solaris. The 
package on sunfreeware didn't have these flags though.
If you could let me have your recipe, that would be really useful!!

Thanks!!

Ed.

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