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From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Subject: Re: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 13:48:56 -0500
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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



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