Yann Crausaz wrote: > to port the latest version of RPM (which is actuelly 4.1.8 : > rpm-4.1-8x.src.rpm),
Actually, the version is 4.1 (rpm-4.1.tar.gz). 8x means customized for RedHat distro version 8.x. I have successfully built rpm-4.0.4 with the following pre-configure adjustments: ### BEGIN pre-configure script ### echo Adjusting db3/configure... perl -i.orig -pe 's/\`echo \$\* \| sed -e \"s\% --cache-file=\.\*\$\%([^%]*)\%\"\`/$1/;s/--enable-rpc/--disable-rpc/;' db3/configure echo Removing -lrt from Makefile.in and rpmio/Makefile.in for file in Makefile.in rpmio/Makefile.in; do perl -i.orig -pe 's/^(LIBS\s*=\s*(?:\S+\s+)*)-lrt(\s+.*)/$1$2/;' $file done ### END pre-configure script ### > and then to find out a way for creating a > something like a distribution of Cygwin completely based on an RPM > scheme (!). This is the tricky bit. Good luck, Max.
