Intermittant configure Failures

[Michael Eager]

I'm building RPM (based on rpm-4.1 sources and a number of patches).
I'm using an earlier version of RPM to build it.

RPM configures a number of sub-directories.  I'm having intermittant
failures in configure.  Usually the failure is while configuring db3, but I've
seen the same failures while configuring popt.  The failure looks like the following:

configure: configuring in db3
configure: running /bin/sh '../../db3/configure'  --prefix=/opt/hardhat/host
'--host=i686-pc-cygwin' '--prefix=/opt/hardhat/host'
'--exec-prefix=/opt/hardhat/host' '--bindir=/opt/hardhat/host/bin' '--sbindir=/opt/hardhat/host/bin'
'--sysconfdir=/opt/hardhat/host/etc' '--datadir=/opt/hardhat/host/share' 
'--includedir=/opt/hardhat/host/include' '--libdir=/opt/hardhat/host/lib'
'--libexecdir=/opt/hardhat/host/libexec' '--localstatedir=/opt/hardhat/host/var'
'--sharedstatedir=/opt/hardhat/host/share' '--mandir=/opt/hardhat/host/man'
'--infodir=/opt/hardhat/host/info' '--disable-rpath' '--without-python' '--without-javaglue'
'CFLAGS=-g -DRELOCATE' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2' 'host_alias=i686-pc-cygwin' --cache-file=/dev/null
--srcdir=../../db3
configure: error: invalid feature name: rpath
mv: cannot stat `Makefile': No such file or directory
cat: Makefile.orig: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `db.h': No such file or directory
cat: db.h.orig: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `listobjs'.  Stop.
configure: error: /bin/sh '../../db3/configure' failed for db3


(Most times configure stops after the error about rpath without the errors
from mv or cat.)

If I cd to the db3 build directory that is being configured and run the same command,
it works OK and rpath is accepted as a feature.   Usually, after I do this, I can re-run
the build from the start and it works OK.

I've attached the output from "cygcheck -s".  Hope it gets through the forwarder.

Anyone have a clue about what might be causing this or how to localize this better?


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Michael Eager	 Eager Consulting     eager@eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-325-8077


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