Oh, I forgot to mention that my system is Solaris 8.

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warnes, Gregory R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:23 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: problem bootstrapping openpkg on Solaris
> 
> 
> 
> First, this is a tremendously useful project.  I've been looking for a
> straightforward way to install opensource software in a NFS-shareable
> location that would properly enforce library dependencies.  
> The openpkg
> tools work very well for this.
> 
> I bootstrapped openpkg but had considerable problems building source
> packages until I discovered that on my system, BUFSIZ is 
> defined to be 1024
> in /usr/include/iso/stdio_iso.h, included from 
> /usr/include/stdio.h.   This
> is much smaller than the 8192 that (seems to be) the value 
> that RPM expects
> (noted in the comments /Volumes/app/appman/RPM/SRC/rpm-4.0.2).  
> 
> The effect was that the long installation path name (not my choice),
> /net/gsun492/Volumes/app/appman/, was causing the __build_pre macro to
> overflow its buffer and get truncated, resulting in general 
> havoc.   (It
> seems likely that short paths (/cm/) would not cause the 
> problem to occur.)
> 
> As a fix, I made a bad hack to the openpkg.spec file:
> 
> *** openpkg.spec-2      Fri Jul 12 20:15:50 2002
> --- openpkg.spec        Fri Jul 12 20:43:03 2002
> ***************
> *** 416,422 ****
>             *          ) nlsopt="--enable-nls 
> --with-included-gettext" ;;
>         esac
>         nlsopt="--disable-nls"
> !       CC="${l_cc} -DOPENPKG -I$br/db-%{V_db}/build_unix
> -I$br/zib-%{V_zlib} -I$br/bzip2-%{V_bzip2}" \
>         CFLAGS="-DOPENPKG -I$br/db-%{V_db}/build_unix 
> -I$br/zlib-%{V_zlib}
> -I$b/bzip2-%{V_bzip2}" \
>         CPPFLAGS="-DOPENPKG -I$br/db-%{V_db}/build_unix 
> -I$br/zlib-%{V_zlib}
> -Ibr/bzip2-%{V_bzip2}" \
>         LDFLAGS="-L$br/db-%{V_db}/build_unix -L$br/zlib-%{V_zlib}
> -L$br/bzip2-%V_bzip2}" \
> --- 416,423 ----
>             *          ) nlsopt="--enable-nls 
> --with-included-gettext" ;;
>         esac
>         nlsopt="--disable-nls"
> !       perl -pi.bak -e 's/\bBUFSIZ\b/RPMBUFSIZ/g' `find . 
> -name "*.[ch]"
> -prin`
> !       CC="${l_cc} -DRPMBUFSIZ=8192 -DOPENPKG 
> -I$br/db-%{V_db}/build_unix
> -I$b/zlib-%{V_zlib} -I$br/bzip2-%{V_bzip2}" \
>         CFLAGS="-DOPENPKG -I$br/db-%{V_db}/build_unix 
> -I$br/zlib-%{V_zlib}
> -I$b/bzip2-%{V_bzip2}" \
>         CPPFLAGS="-DOPENPKG -I$br/db-%{V_db}/build_unix 
> -I$br/zlib-%{V_zlib}
> -Ibr/bzip2-%{V_bzip2}" \
>         LDFLAGS="-L$br/db-%{V_db}/build_unix -L$br/zlib-%{V_zlib}
> -L$br/bzip2-%V_bzip2}" \
> 
> 
> This simply runs find+perl to replace all references to BUFSIZ with
> RPMBUFSIZ, then adds the macro definition RPMBUFSIZ=8192 to 
> the compilation
> CFLAGS.  This seems to work fine, but it might be a good idea 
> to make a
> permanent fix in a more portable way, which would probably 
> also involve
> adding a test to configure.
> 
> I've compiled a pile of packages, but still have a couple of 
> (hopefully
> unrelated problems).  I'll detail those in another message.
> 
> -Greg
> 
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