rpm won't build

[markd at macports.org]

My MacBook hangs and I can't get icu installed.  But there is an rpm 4.4.9
out now.  You could edit the rpm Portfile and update it to 4.4.9 and see
if it helps.  The changelog lists some "FreeBSD portability fiddles"

Mark

"Vivek Menon" <vivek.menon79 at gmail.com> on Monday, May 21, 2007 at 6:58 AM
-0800 wrote:
>Hello,
>I am having problem installing the rpm port. Initially I encountered
>problem with ncurses package and that was rectified by following Guido
>Soranzio's instructions.
>Can someone help???
>This is what I see:
>=======================================
>sudo port install rpm
>Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state.
>--->  Fetching ncurses
>--->  Verifying checksum(s) for ncurses
>--->  Extracting ncurses
>--->  Applying patches to ncurses
>--->  Configuring ncurses
>--->  Building ncurses with target all
>--->  Staging ncurses into destroot
>--->  Installing ncurses 5.6_0+darwin_8
>--->  Activating ncurses 5.6_0+darwin_8
>--->  Cleaning ncurses
>--->  Fetching readline
>--->  Attempting to fetch readline52-001 from
>http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/
>--->  Attempting to fetch readline-5.2.tar.gz from
>http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline
>--->  Verifying checksum(s) for readline
>--->  Extracting readline
>--->  Applying patches to readline
>--->  Configuring readline
>--->  Building readline with target all
>--->  Staging readline into destroot
>--->  Installing readline 5.2.001_0
>--->  Activating readline 5.2.001_0
>--->  Cleaning readline
>--->  Fetching rpm
>--->  Attempting to fetch rpm-4.4.6.tar.gz from
>http://wraptastic.org/pub/rpm-4.4.x/
>--->  Verifying checksum(s) for rpm
>--->  Extracting rpm
>--->  Applying patches to rpm
>--->  Configuring rpm
>--->  Building rpm with target all
>Error: Target com.apple.build returned: shell command " cd
>"/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_sysutils_rpm/work/rpm-4.4.6"
>&& gnumake all " returned error 2
>Command output: rpmmodule.c:193: warning: statement with no effect
>rpmmodule.c:197: error: 'm' undeclared (first use in this function)
>rpmmodule.c:217: warning: implicit declaration of function
>'Py_InitModule3'
>rpmmodule.c:223: warning: implicit declaration of function
>'PyModule_GetDict'
>rpmmodule.c:230: warning: implicit declaration of function
>'PyErr_NewException'
>rpmmodule.c:230: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a
>cast
>rpmmodule.c:232: warning: implicit declaration of function
>'PyDict_SetItemString'
>rpmmodule.c:272: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:272: error: 'PyType_Type' undeclared (first use in this
>function)
>rpmmodule.c:273: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:274: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:275: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:276: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:277: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:278: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:279: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:280: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:281: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:282: error: request for member 'ob_type' in something not
>a structure or union
>rpmmodule.c:285: warning: implicit declaration of function 'PyDict_New'
>rpmmodule.c:288: warning: implicit declaration of function
>'PyInt_FromLong'
>rpmmodule.c:290: warning: implicit declaration of function 'Py_DECREF'
>rpmmodule.c:291: warning: implicit declaration of function
>'PyDict_SetItem'
>rpmmodule.c:291: warning: implicit declaration of function
>'PyString_FromString'
>rpmmodule.c:297: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer
>target type
>rpmmodule.c:298: warning: implicit declaration of function
>'PyCObject_FromVoidPtr'
>gnumake[3]: *** [rpmmodule.lo] Error 1
>gnumake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>gnumake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>gnumake: *** [all] Error 2