On Jan 16, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
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?
Nobody has looked at rpm on solaris for quite a while now. rpm used
gto build just fine
on my teensy solaris 2.5 box.
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).
There is no -R in rpm-4.4.4 lua/Makefile*. So the -R is being added
from configure.ac. 1 line change ...
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
So change the check to look in the hoary /usr/include/arpa/*.h
directories. Is arpa even
funded in 2006? ;-)
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....
And for the same reason, see configure.ac.
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.
So don't. I support rpm on machines that I have access to, not elsewise.
The problem with that approach is that I'm flying blind, and cannot
change what I cannot test.
73 de Jeff
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