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

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:

> 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.

And also a link problem with apt-0.5.15lorg3.94 and apt-0.5.15lorg3.94a:

 	g++ -O2 -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -o .libs/cdrom cdrom.o  ../apt-pkg/.libs/libapt-pkg.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so /usr/lib/librpm.so -L/usr/src/build/229501-i386/BUILD/rpm-4.2/zlib -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/librpmdb.so -lelf /usr/lib/librpmio.so -lrt -lpthread /usr/lib/libpopt.so -ldl -lz -lbz2
 	../apt-pkg/.libs/libapt-pkg.so: undefined reference to `rpmsqCaught'
 	collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 	make[1]: *** [cdrom] Error 1
 	make[1]: Leaving directory `/dar/build/apt-0.5.15lorg3.94a/methods'
 	make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 	error: Bad exit status from /dar/tmp/rpm-tmp.56315 (%build)

Thanks in advance,
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