make rpm

[David Relson]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:36:23 +0100
Matthias Andree wrote:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
> 
> > Also, in Makefile.am there's an objdump test?  On my workstation it's
> > triggering the "Please run ..." message.  I've checked and my build of
> > sqlite-3.2.8 _does_ include symbol __ctype_b_loc.
> 
> And that is the problem, as linking with this sqlite-3.2.8 version will
> add "libc.so(GLIBC_2.3)" to the requirements list and fail to link at
> run time on systems that predate GLIBC 2.3.
> 
> The old versions of the script (1.1, 1.2) tried to pass -D__NO_CTYPE via
> CPPFLAGS, which sqlite's Makefile.in isn't using. The new 1.3 version
> now passes this via CFLAGS, which works, so that the GLIBC 2.3
> requirement is removed.
> 
> This, unfortunately, requires you to rebuild your sqlite-3.2.8
> installation. Detecting this GLIBC_2.3 dependency and rebuilding to
> remove it is what the objdump/grep stuff is all about.

Explanation appreciated!  Re-running install-staticdblibs.sh is no
problem :->