Re: Help: Installing RPM on Solaris 8

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Help: Installing RPM on Solaris 8, Eliyahu Skoczylas said (at...: I've been trying to install either RPM 4.3.3 or RPM 5.0.3 on Solaris 8 and running into all kinds of trouble. If you're going to try 4.x, try 4.4.9. It should be much easier to build on Solaris 8 than all

Re: Help: Installing RPM on Solaris 8

2008-04-09 Thread Eliyahu Skoczylas
Mark Hatle wrote: It's been a few years, but this is what I had to do to get to RPM 4.4.2. We needed to provide a modern gcc, binutils, autoconf, automake, libtool, etc.. as well as libraries and such. Yeah. I've been rebuilding gcc, biutils, libtool, libiconv, and gmake so far. (I also

Re: Help: Installing RPM on Solaris 8

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Eliyahu Skoczylas wrote: First BIG question: Do you think I'm better off - starting over with 4.4.9 an Sun's cc, as you've done, - keep going with 5.0.3 but restart on cc, - or just to keep plugging with 5.0.3 on gcc? The major difference is that rpm-4.4.9 built

Re: Help: Installing RPM on Solaris 8

2008-04-09 Thread Eliyahu Skoczylas
Tim Mooney wrote: If you're going to try 4.x, try 4.4.9. It should be much easier to build on Solaris 8 than all previous versions of 4.x..., You should probably go with 5.0.x, though. ... I used the free Sun Workshop compiler rather than gcc ... I have 4.4.9 built and working on Solaris

Re: Help: Installing RPM on Solaris 8

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: Help: Installing RPM on Solaris 8, Eliyahu Skoczylas said...: Jeff Johnson wrote: On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Eliyahu Skoczylas wrote: 4.4.9 would best keep us in sync with the CentOS version 4.3.3 that another team member has started playing with, and should be most