rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Fri Mar 7 19:02:00 GMT 2003
Max Bowsher wrote:
> There's been sporadic interest in rpm, so I thought someone might find this
> useful:
>
> I've recently succeeded in persuading rpm-4.1 to compile under Cygwin.
> It was more troublesome than rpm-4.0.4, as it makes some assumptions about
> the system, and doesn't bother to use configure tests to make sure.
[snip]
> I'm rather unsure about one particular bit of code: is writing to the
> environ pointer legal?
system dependent. Dunno about whether it's legal on cygwin; I doubt it.
I thought that rpm-4.x required Berkeley db-4.x -- which has not yet
been officially added to the cygwin distro. AFAIK, we have db2 and db3,
but not db4. How did you satisfy that dependency?
--Chuck
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