On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:05:55 -0800 Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 October 2002 05:18 am,Tim Wunder wrote: > > On 10/29/2002 10:01 PM, someone claiming to be Tony Alfrey wrote: > > > OK you KDE gurus. > > > I can't compile kpackage for kde3.0.4 > > > Actually I haven't been able to compile kpackage since about > > > kde2.2.2 so it must be some old library or old version of rpm. > > > But I recall some past discussion of newer versions of rpm having > > > some problem. So what do you all recommend (let me guess . . . > > > rpm on a console and bag kpackage ?? ;-) ) > > > > Care to elucidate further what error you're having? A mention of what > > distro you're using might be helpful, too. > > Well, I'm not sure that the distro is important anymore since it's been > so modified, but I'm running the Caldera precursor to 3.x (LTP). I > have rpm 3.0.6 on the box and a 2.4.4 kernel. Unfortunately I didn't > write down the compiler error but I'm sure that it was about missing > some header file. I'll run make again (without the -i) and see what > message I get. Caldera, in the 3.x release, installs two versions of rpm: 2.5.5 and 3.0.6. They make the 3.0.6 the default. 'ls -l /usr/lib/librpm*' lists: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186940 Dec 13 2001 librpm-2.5.5.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 385102 Apr 15 2002 librpm.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129750 Apr 15 2002 librpmbuild.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 641 Apr 15 2002 librpmbuild.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 626 Apr 15 2002 librpm.la There is also a /usr/include/rpm as well as a /usr/include/rpm-2.5.5 Maybe whatever you are compiling wants a different release than the one it is using. So, the $64000 questions are: (1) what is the actual complaint, (2) which rpm does the app want, and (3) which is it actually using? -- +============================+===============================+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 | Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | +============================+===============================+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
