RE: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Max Bowsher wrote: > > > I'm not quite sure rpm really is desirable for the Cygwin dist, unless it > > was decided to transition to rpm packages exclusively once setup was > > suitably adapted. > > Well, there are grand designs eventually to generalize setup so that it > can accept tar.bz2 (or .cyg

Re: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Max Bowsher wrote: I'm not quite sure rpm really is desirable for the Cygwin dist, unless it was decided to transition to rpm packages exclusively once setup was suitably adapted. Well, there are grand designs eventually to generalize setup so that it can accept tar.bz2 (or .cyg?) packages, as we

Re: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> RPM includes a copy of Berkerly DB in its source tarball, and will >> build with the internal db unless explicitly told to try using the >> system db. > > Oh, ok. If anybody wants to add rpm to the cygwin distribution as a > supported package, though,

Re: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Max Bowsher wrote: 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? RPM includes a copy of Berkerly DB in its source tarball, and will build with the in

Re: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: > 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 s

Re: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-07 Thread Charles Wilson
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 te

rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-07 Thread Max Bowsher
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.