In regard to: Re: rpm and platform detection, Alice Wonder said (at 2:57am...:
config.guess was not the problem, it gives same results as any platform. With the manual changes to the RPM macros, it did build RPMs but the without the ability to autodect dependencies etc. - I did not have elfutils installed. I grabbed the latest elfutils and compiled it and installed it, and doing so broke my tool chain, I was not able to compile anything after that, I suspect it replaced something. The actually happened in configure scripts while testing ability to link.
So maybe you should figure out what's going wrong there, as elfutils is part of many Linux distributions.
So, wiped that LFS and did it again, have RPM installed again (but same problem - it did not configure for linux) and I'm in the process of bootstrapping it now so that on a second attempt to install elfutils, I can build it as an RPM and hopefully figure out what parts of the toolchain it wants to replace.
Sounds like a good plan. Also, rather than going with the version of rpm that Red Hat has started maintaining again, have you considered rpm 5.x from rpm5.org? Tim -- Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney@xxxxxxxx Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
