"Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 21 May 2002 001a01c200e4$fde5e240$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:001a01c200e4$fde5e240$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> ------=_NextPart_001_0016_01C200ED.5F024A70 > The attached shell script contains the steps I used to build rpm-4.0.3 > (with its included db) on an up-to-date cygwin. It is heavily based on > the instructions by Mario Schmidt at > http://rtfm.shagged.org/~mario/cygwin Max, Hey, thanks for posting this. I am wondering if you could provide more information re. porting 'rpm' to Cygwin. Even tho this posting is months old. The url above (~mario ...) is bad now. And I went to the official rpm site and then burrowed into ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.3/, installed the source tree. I ran the script and it didn't quite finish installing stuff (LOTS of stuff) before it ('make') died with some hard to understand error but it did get far enough that I have a working rpm setup, good enough at least to run 'rpm2cpio FOO.rmp | cpio -i...'. Do you have any plans to propose rpm as an official Cygwin package? And are you interested in making the build more simple? Now that db3 is available for Cygwin, most of the dependencies that are shipped as bundled sources with rpm-4.0.3 can be satisfied by already-installed cygwin packages, if one can figure out the linking details and so forth. Last observation: providing a build script like that is really a nice contribution, probably beats heck out of merely providing a verbal description of "how you did it". Best, Soren A -- 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/
