Re: Attempting to compile rpm5 for RH Linux EL5

[Jeff Johnson]

On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:

I am trying to compile and install RPM 5.1.9.tar.gz And am running into the following errors. Is there any configure option I should be trying.

Has this been fixed in a later release?

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I. -I.. -I../build -I../lib -I../lib
-I../rpmdb -I../rpmio -I../misc -I../db3 -I../db3 -I../pcre -I../pcre

-MD -MP -MF .deps/rpmdigest.Tpo -c -o rpmdigest.o rpmdigest.c
rpmdigest.c:265: error: optionsTable[1].argInfo')
rpmdigest.c:267: error: initializer element is not constant

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-DRPM_OS_LINUX=020609 -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -MT rpmdigest.o rpmdigest.c:267: error: (near initialization for POPT_ARG_ARGV' undeclared here (not in a optionsTable[1]')<BR>rpmdigest.c:270: error: initializer element is not

You need popt-1.15 (or you need to patch out POPT_ARG_ARGV,

to popt like a year ago or so).

I'll attach a copy of a rpmdigest.c that has the necessary
retrofit, rpmdigest.c is rather small.

Look for the

        #if !defined(POPT_ARG_ARGV)
        ...
        #endif

sections.

Installing popt-1.15 is the preferred solution.

You can also easily live without building rpmdigest.c, nothing
in RPM itself needs rpmdigest, which is mostly included in RPM
so that the same code paths used by RPM internally can also be
exercised externally in a standalone executable.

73 de Jeff

which should be in slightly older versions of RPM, POPT_ARG_ARGV was added

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