From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Description of problem: During compilation of rpm-4.1.1 with gcc-3.2 on Solaris 8, I am getting a lot of errors. This was brought from a thread from rpm-list, so I will attach all the details from the thread.. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. tar zxvf rpm-4.1.1.tar.gz 2. CFLAGS='-O2' CC=gcc ./configure --prefix=/opt/rpm --localstatedir=/var --without-python 3. make Additional info:
Created attachment 92363 [details] taken from thread on rpm-list This message describes the intial compilation problems
Created attachment 92364 [details] taken from thread on rpm-list part 2 proposed fixed to compilation errors
Created attachment 92365 [details] taken from thread on rpm-list part 3 explanation of how to perform solution form part 2
Created attachment 92366 [details] compile errors after removing /elfutils/ and reconfiguring
Don't compile debugedit on solaris is the answer. You will lose the ability to extract -debuginfo into a shadow file, which prolly is unsupported on solaris anyways.