Rebuilding Without Dependencies

[Chuck Wolber <chuckw quantumlinux com>]

Greetings,

I am attempting to strip out libbz2 and libselinux from rpm for use in an 
embedded system. Starting with attempting to remove libbz2 (libselinux 
will come next) I've patched the *HECK* out of the RPM 4.3.3 source to no 
avail. No matter what I try, after compiling, ldd shows that libbz2 is 
still required to execute the rpm binary.

Attempting to force an error message (and thereby trace where it's being 
linked in during the build process), I temporarily removed 
/usr/lib/libbz2* and did the compile. Only then was I able to build an rpm 
binary that did not require libbz2. Obviously that's a horribly ugly hack 
and I don't want to go that route.

Any ideas?

..Chuck..


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