Re: RPM 4.11.1-1 fails on Cygwin 1.7.27-1 and -2

[Ken <kstmp001@comcast.net>]

Ken wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There appears to be a problem with the 'RPM' utility, 
> as it produces no output, not even for --version or 
> --help.
> It appears all dependencies are installed.  I could 
> not find any reports on this (bug?) in the lists, so 
> here are the details.
>
> - 'rpm --version' reports nothing.
>
> - 'strace -o rpm_strace.out rpm' produces the 
> following Windows pop-up error dialog:
>
>   -----------------
>   rpm.exe - Entry Point Not Found
>   -----
>   The procedure entry point poptSaveInt could not be 
> located in the
>   dynamic link library cygpopt-0.dll.
>   -----------------
>
> - The strace output is:
>
>   Process 5816, exception c0000139 at 77431D82
>
> - Rebase had no effect.
>
> - Tested in mintty and X with same result.
>
> - Tested with the 1.7.27-2 configuration as well as 
> the latest snapshot (20140108 16:52:21) with same 
> result:
>
>   CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Win7main 1.7.28s(0.271/5/3) 
> 20140108 16:52:21 i686 Cygwin
>
> - OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit w/SP1, on Intel 
> core-i7.
>   Tested on two different systems with varied 
> application and antivirus installed.
>
> - cygcheck.out and strace.out attached.
>
> NOTE: The previous version of RPM, v4.1-2, appears to 
> work fine.
>
> Best regards,
> Ken
>

I am replying to my own report to provide closure to 
the issue I was experiencing.

Thanks to *Christian* and his response to another issue 
related to popt in 
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00148.html, I 
found that RPM v4.11.1-1 works with popt 1.16.1 
installed (via a new setup.ini and package updates).  
Originally, I still had libpopt0 1.6.4-4 installed as 
the RPM dependency from my previous local download 
where setup.ini did not include the change for the 
(now) obsolete libpopt.

One can glean a lot reading this list ... my sincere 
thanks to all you contributors!

Regards,
Ken


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