[Rpm-maint] Building rpm-4.14.0

[Michael Schroeder]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:46:24AM -0500, Baho Utot wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/11/17 03:28, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On 12/10/2017 02:43 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
> > > If this is the wrong list point me to the correct list.
> > > 
> > > I am having trouble building rpm-4.14.0.  when configuring for the
> > > build configure does not create db.h so when running make if fails
> > > any one have a solution?
> > 
> > I already replied to you regaring the same issue in October on
> > rpm-ecosystem:
> > http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2017-October/000502.html
> > 
> >      - Panu -
> 
> That is not the problem.  I have tried to build with db 4.5 to db-6.0. It
> appears to me that configure is not making the db.h file.  that older
> version on rpm do create the file this new version just does not for some
> reason.

As Panu said: you need to run the configure script with the
--without-external-db option, otherwise it will not build berkeley
db (and yes, that's a bug in the configure script).

Cheers,
  Michael,

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