Bug 9611

Summary:	rpm-devel header files possibly need fixing
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	lars
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	lars
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Description lars 2000-02-20 21:16:09 UTC

There is a problem with rpmlib.h, part of the rpm-devel rpm (exists in
rpm-devel-3.0.3-2).

rpmlib.h includes several other rpm header files like this:

  #include <rpmio.h>
  #include <dbindex.h>
  #include <header.h>

Unfortunately, a program (such as rpmfind. which is where I ran into this
problem) that includes rpmlib.h like this:

  #include <rpm/rpmlib.h>

Will fail to compile, because the preprocessor will search for
/usr/include/rpmio.h, etc., and will not find them.

The best solution is probably to modify rpmlib.h so that it looks like
this:

  #include <rpm/rpmio.h>
  #include <rpm/dbindex.h>
  #include <rpm/header.h>

So that it no longer depends on client code to pass the
-I/usr/include/rpm flag to the preprocessor.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-02-21 11:03:59 UTC

Changing to <rpm/rpmio.h> would preven building rpm itself.

A slightly better change is to use "rpmio.h", as that permits
both building rpm and other applications without -I... flags.
However, that breaks certain binding autogenerators (perl? I fergit).

So the supported method of building is to use -I...