There's several changes in popt-1.14 and popt-1.15 that
RPM uses.
Up until now, I've carried around retrofits for older
popt versions while developing for portability in order
to minimize disruptions.
I'm now going to remove these retrofits because the code
is starting to proliferate to too many other places. The
retrofits aren't very hard, but they are needed in too many
places, and create pointless busy work with PO files and
complicated tables and proliferating symbols/functions.
If you simply cannot upgrade to popt-1.15 and wish to
build rpm-5.1.8 and later, the easiest course will be
to use popt-1.15 internal to rpm in -lrpmmisc.
If you cannot upgrade to popt-1.15 and do not wish popt
internal to rpm and wish to build rpm-5.1.8 and later,
then the next easiest course is to re-apply the patches
I'm removing.
If you cannot upgrade to popt-1.15 and do not wish popt
internal to rpm and do not wish to build rpm-5.1.8, then
you're wasting time reading this message. ;-)
popt-1.15 will be released this weekend. The tarball is
already at
http://public.me.com/n3npq/popt-1.15.tar.gz
in the process of being moved to the usual release directory
http://rpm5.org/files/popt/
73 de Jeff
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