I'm compiling (attempting to) rpm 4.4.4 on Solaris 2.9 system. Run
into some trouble, and am slowly fixing it.
Just wondering has anybody managed to compile the thing under Solaris 2.9?
The first obstacle was creating liblua.a. The makefiles issued
"-R../zlib" to linker (equivalent of -rpath on Linux). Which of course
doesn't fly. -R option can accept only absolute pathnames, of course.
Otherwise, it would be security disaster waiting to happen (and would
produce unpredictable results during runtime anyhow) if it was allowed.
OK, I changed autogenerated Makefile by hand (haven't had time to
look into Makefile.in to fix this yet).
The second obstacle is that configure haven't detected that Solaris has
inet_aton function. So rpmio.c failed to compile with following:
rpmio.c:42: error: static declaration of 'inet_aton' follows non-static
declaration
/usr/include/arpa/inet.h:52: error: previous declaration of 'inet_aton'
was here
Oh well, I guess I'll just change config.h and define correct value.
And also check why it failed to detect it.
While typing this, I just saw librpmio.la target failed for the same
reason like liblua.a. -R../zlib....
BTW, another ugly thing during build process. Seems some (most? all?)
linking is done using -L/usr/ucblib -R/usr/ucblib. Huh... /usr/ucb*
stuff is (according to Sun) completely broken and not maintained in any
way for a past decade or so... Don't see any reason for any recent
development to use that stuff. Escpecially since nothing in rpm build
process uses include files from /usr/ucbinclude. Thinking about
changing all Makefiles and removing references to /usr/ucblib.
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