From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040817 Description of problem: Package has several build problems. 1. The version released for RHEL3 requires autoconf/automake newer than supplied with RHEL3. 2. The buildreq entry does not indicate this, so building crashes instead of throwing a dependency error. 3. After solving the above (by temp upgrade to FC2 version of GNU autoconf/automake), the package STILL does not build. Adding this at line 88 of the .spec fixes the problem: # Patched 04/10/08 by jmorris, package won't build without this. (cd utils ; cp dbconverter-1.5.9.c dbconverter-1.5.c ) Of course this isn't the correct way to fix it, but not being a wizard with autoconf I will defer to those who are. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.1.15-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt building the package on RHEL3 2. Watch it fail. 3. Upgrade autoconf/automake and try again. 4. Watch it fail. 5. Add my patch to the .spec 6. Success.
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