[Apt-Rpm] apt-0.5.15lorg3.94 build fails on RH7 and RHEL2.1

[Dag Wieers]

Hi,

Building newer apt packages for RPMforge (for testing purposes) and I 
noticed that apt-0.5.15lorg3.94 fails to build for RH7 and RHEL2.1.

The main reason is that it fails to find rpmlib.h or rpm.pc on the dated 
rpm-4.0.4-7x release and bails out. The easiest solution would be to patch 
configure, but I would prefer if there was an option to configure in the 
future to have it work.

On RHEL2.1:

 	checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
 	checking for RPM... yes
 	Package rpm was not found in the pkg-config search path.
 	Perhaps you should add the directory containing `rpm.pc'
 	to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
 	No package 'rpm' found
 	checking for RPM version... configure: error: can't parse RPM version
 	error: Bad exit status from /dar/tmp/rpm-tmp.97583 (%build)

On RH7:

 	checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
 	checking for RPM... Package rpm was not found in the pkg-config search
 	path.
 	Perhaps you should add the directory containing `rpm.pc'
 	to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
 	No package 'rpm' found
 	no
 	checking for rpm... /bin/rpm
 	checking for RPM version... 4.0.4
 	checking db1/db.h usability... yes
 	checking db1/db.h presence... yes
 	checking for db1/db.h... yes
 	checking for rpmdbOpen in -lrpmdb... yes
 	checking for RPM libraries... -lrpm -lrpmdb -lrpmio -lz -lbz2 -lpopt
 	checking rpm/rpmlib.h usability... no
 	checking rpm/rpmlib.h presence... no
 	checking for rpm/rpmlib.h... no
 	configure: error: Can't find rpmlib.h
 	error: Bad exit status from /dar/tmp/rpm-tmp.24965 (%build)

And for apt-0.5.15lorg3.2 I already have to provide some environment 
variables to make configure happy on RHEL2.1:

 	export PKG_CONFIG="/bin/true"
 	export LIBXML2_CFLAGS="$(xml2-config --cflags)"
 	export LIBXML2_LIBS="$(xml2-config --libs)"

Especially the PKG_CONFIG should be unneeded to make the LIBXML 
environment variables work.

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