Re: pkg/42373: misc/rpm would not build on Solaris 8: __db185_open

["Mikhail T." <mi+thun%aldan.algebra.com@localhost>]

David Holland wrote:
>  If you want to check interoperability, please build rpm from pkgsrc
>  with the same Berkeley DB version that the native rpm is using.
>  Otherwise it will probably fail to open the database and you might or
>  might not get comprehensible error messages out.

I did test that -- and the result was negative... As I reported earlier
in this PR, the pkgsrc-built rpm couldn't understand the data of the
native rpm on the same machine running Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 (amd64 aka
x86_64).

Yours,

        -mi