Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Charles Wilson Subject: Re: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 13:48:56 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3E68E998.1080303@ece.gatech.edu> References: <00be01c2e4c1$61dd9d90$78d96f83@pomello> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Max Bowsher wrote: > There's been sporadic interest in rpm, so I thought someone might find this > useful: > > I've recently succeeded in persuading rpm-4.1 to compile under Cygwin. > It was more troublesome than rpm-4.0.4, as it makes some assumptions about > the system, and doesn't bother to use configure tests to make sure. [snip] > I'm rather unsure about one particular bit of code: is writing to the > environ pointer legal? system dependent. Dunno about whether it's legal on cygwin; I doubt it. I thought that rpm-4.x required Berkeley db-4.x -- which has not yet been officially added to the cygwin distro. AFAIK, we have db2 and db3, but not db4. How did you satisfy that dependency? --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/