Hi Jeff: Some questions below:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jeff Johnson <n3...@mac.com> wrote: > There is no simple solution that I see to the above: either more resources > @rpm5.org > are needed (which is unlikely to happen), or users are going to have > to patch the released version to accommodate their own specific build needs. > What are these resources ? People or computers ? > The necessary changes are not all that hard: > > There are two places that > #include <db51/db.h> > is used that need to be changed. Its the "db51/" portion > of the include that causes build failures. > You've answered this before, but could you please tell us once again what would be the repercussions of changing this to #include <db.h> > And there are these 3 approaches to building RPM: > > 1) install db-5.1.x into > /usr/include/db51/db.h > /usr/lib/libdb-5.1.* The default make install for bdb creates some other folder structures. I've had to symlink from those locations to the above. > > 2) patch RPM to use a different version of Berkeley DB > > 3) re-add Berkeley DB db-5.1.x internal to RPM. > What is the reason that you'd removed this ? How about making this the default again, with us distro folk having to explicitly specify --with-db=external ? > @rpm5.org cannot dictate which of those approaches end-users wish to choose > in RPM. > I feel that getting rpm5 to build easily is a good goal to have. I've learned that if I read your INSTALL document, and then follow devtool.conf, then life becomes easier. Looking forward to your replies. > hth > > 73 de Jeff > > ______________________________________________________________________ > RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org > User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org > -- Belenix: www.belenix.org ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org
