[Sorry if this is a repeat -- doesn't look like the first trial
of this last month made it to the archives.]
A perennial question on this list .. but I haven't found a recipe for
doing it.
Anybody have anything? Any recommendations? I need something that
is compatible with rpm-4.1 on solaris 8; it needs to be able to read
rpm files (I don't care about building them).
I have a current-patched, solaris-8 sparc machine, with
gcc 3.3.1, and forte cc (says version 6, and has all current patches).
History: found the freeware distro of rpm couldn't deal with more
recent rpm files; the freeware version is some ancient version 3 rev.
Version 4 couldn't compile; it has dependencies on some kind of
internationalization package called gettext; it was hard to find a version
of this that rpm liked, and would compile on solaris. Next, the rpm
configure doesn't like the Berkeley db installed on my system, and
ithe 4.1 rpm distribution, which contains 2 versions of db, doesn't
configure
either of them properly: the result is that the software must be built
in the
source distribution (ugh), and I don't know enough to fix this
autoconfig snafu.
Once thru that, now running into Linuxy assumptions (macro defs) that
don't fly in Solaris 8:
make[2]: Entering directory
`/export/home/helm/project/rpm/rpm-4.1/rpm-4.1-internal/rpmio'
source='fts.c' object='fts.lo' libtool=yes \
depfile='.deps/fts.Plo' tmpdepfile='.deps/fts.TPlo' \
depmode=none /bin/bash ../depcomp \
/bin/bash ../libtool --mode=compile cc -xarch=v9a -xtarget=native64
- -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -I../popt -I../zlib -xarch=v9a
- -xtarget=native64 -c -o fts.lo `test -f 'fts.c' || echo './'`fts.c
rm -f .libs/fts.lo
cc -xarch=v9a -xtarget=native64 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I..
- -I../popt -I../zlib -xarch=v9a -xtarget=native64 -c fts.c -KPIC -DPIC
- -o fts.o
"fts.c", line 135: cannot dereference non-pointer type
"fts.c", line 163: syntax error before or at: {
"fts.c", line 163: syntax error before or at: _b
"fts.c", line 163: undefined symbol: _a
"fts.c", line 163: undefined symbol: _b
"fts.c", line 163: cannot recover from previous errors
cc: acomp failed for fts.c
make[2]: *** [fts.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/export/home/helm/project/rpm/rpm-4.1/rpm-4.1-internal/rpmio'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/export/home/helm/project/rpm/rpm-4.1/rpm-4.1-internal'
Ok, what to do? Haven't tried gcc since before gcc-3.3 and before I
dealt with
those other problems above -- would gcc overcome this hurdle?
Any advice appreciated. Thanks, ==mwh
Michael Helm
ESnet/LBNL
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