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solaris 2.6 (spit) has a broken glob call which cannot detect dangling symlinks. eg %install ... ln -s /some/place $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/cron.daily/ ... %files /etc/cron.daily/* Solaris 2.6 has a glob which is detected by autoconf. However in the case above it fails to expand /etc/cron.daily/* and the build fails. [using a relative link works round the problem since then they are normally within the package]. Although this doesn't affect RHL, and is pretty small potatoes to rpm, having an easy means in autoconf to shut out the system glob could be useful. Also, if config.cache is hacked to say that <glob.h> and glob() do not exist on the system, the build attempts to make misc/glob.o and fails due to the #undef of half the useful defines from misc/glob.h :-)
Ah, thanks for identifying. BTW, solaris2.6 also has trouble with /usr/*/local/*/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo I anticipate re-adding GNU glob to rpm and always using, although for slightly different reasons. The latest GNU glob provides private vectors for opendir/readdir/closedir/stat/lstat that will be used to implement transport independent remote globbing.
GNU glob has been internalized in rpm-3.0.4.