rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

[Max Bowsher]

There's been sporadic interest in rpm, so I thought someone might find this
useful:

I've recently succeeded in persuading rpm-4.1 to compile under Cygwin.
It was more troublesome than rpm-4.0.4, as it makes some assumptions about
the system, and doesn't bother to use configure tests to make sure.

Attached are my fixup script, and 2 patches (one bzip2ed - the script
expects it uncompressed, though).

The jbj9 patch is the diff between the rpm-4.1 from ftp.rpm.org, and the one
inside Jeff Johnson's (the RPM maintainer) unofficial rpm-4.1-9 .src.rpm.

The script fixes some things via perl regexps, and uses a patch for the
rest.

I'm rather unsure about one particular bit of code: is writing to the
environ pointer legal?



Anyway, here it is, in case anyone finds it useful.


Max.
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