Build of rpm-4.4.x (Linux x86_64)

I'm new to this list, please forgive me if I'm covering
well-trodden 
ground (I didn't see any duplication in the archive). 
I've had a few 
problems configuring and building recent releases of RPM
from their CVS 
release tags.  I have been working on tags rpm-4_4_2-release
to 
rpm-4_4_5-release with varying degrees of success.  I was
hoping for 
some comment or suggestions from the sages on this list
about what went 
wrong for me:

* Firstly if I pass any configure options to autogen.sh, it
complains:

# ./autogen.sh --option1 --option2 --option3
[...]
./autogen.sh: line 34: [: too many arguments

This is a valid thing to expect to do though, right? 
Here's a small 
patch, which I hope is still portable:

--- rpm-orig/autogen.sh 2005-11-29 22:18:56.000000000 +0000
+++ rpm/autogen.sh      2006-03-15 09:38:40.000000000 +0000
 -31,7
+31,7 
  [ "`automake --version | head -1 | sed -e
's/1\.4[a-z]/1.4/'`" != 
"$AMV" ] && echo "$USAGE" #
&& exit 1

  myopts=
-if [ X"$" = X  -a "X`uname -s`"
= "XDarwin" -a -d /opt/local ]; then
+if [ X"$*" = X  -a "X`uname -s`" =
"XDarwin" -a -d /opt/local ]; then
      export myopts="--prefix=/usr
--disable-nls"
      export CPPFLAGS="-I$/include"
  fi
 -69,7
+69,7 
      exit 0;
  fi

-if [ X"$" = X  -a "X`uname -s`"
= "XLinux" ]; then
+if [ X"$*" = X  -a "X`uname -s`" =
"XLinux" ]; then
      if [ -d /usr/share/man ]; then
         mandir=/usr/share/man
         infodir=/usr/share/info

* configure complains about the lack of directory 'wnh'. 
I dropped 
this from the autoconf directory list with no apparent
side-effects.  
Is wnh something I actually need, or is it on its way in or
way out?

* I noticed that the --with-perl and --with-apidocs
arguments to 
configure don't work.  Looks like the autoconf script needs
these 
fixes:

--- rpm-orig/configure.ac       2005-11-29
22:18:56.000000000 +0000
+++ rpm/configure.ac    2006-03-15 09:50:17.000000000 +0000
 -957,6
+957,7 
  dnl
  AC_ARG_WITH(perl,   [  --with-perl             build rpm
perl bindings 
])

+WITH_PERL_VERSION=$withval
  if test "$WITH_PERL_VERSION" != no ; then
    WITH_PERL_SUBDIR=perl
    WITH_PERL_SUBPACKAGE=1
 -1048,6
+1049,15 
  elif test $withval = yes -a $__DOXYGEN = no ; then
    AC_MSG_ERROR(--> rpm API docs needs doxygen in PATH)
  fi
+if test $withval = yes; then
+  WITH_APIDOCS_TARGET=apidocs
+  WITH_APIDOCS=1
+else
+  WITH_APIDOCS=0
+fi
+AC_SUBST(WITH_APIDOCS_TARGET)
+AC_SUBST(WITH_APIDOCS)
+

  WITH_SELINUX_LIB=
  withval=$
 -1073,15
+1083,6 
  AC_SUBST(WITH_LUA_SUBDIR)
  AC_SUBST(WITH_LUA_INCLUDE)

-if test $withval = yes; then
-  WITH_APIDOCS_TARGET=apidocs
-  WITH_APIDOCS=1
-else
-  WITH_APIDOCS=0
-fi
-AC_SUBST(WITH_APIDOCS_TARGET)
-AC_SUBST(WITH_APIDOCS)
-
  withval=no
  AC_ARG_WITH(dmalloc, [  --with-dmalloc          build with
dmalloc 
debugging support ])
  if test $withval = yes ; then

* I also had problems building the embedded zlib and file
modules after 
a recursive configure.  RPM's configure script was giving
them a 
top_builddir value of '.', which meant they were looking
for zlib 
libraries in the wrong place.  I didn't have an easy
suggestion for 
fixing this, in the end I would configure those directories
separately 
after configuring rpm and before starting the make.  Any
ideas what is 
going wrong here?

* I found that the --with-lua option could not be used to
disable Lua - 
it's presence is assumed by psm.c in librpm so the build
fails.  Should 
it be possible to build RPM without Lua?

* I found that the embedded zlib's rpmz_ prefix caused
problems, 
because libxml (which apparently is also in the mix) assumes
a zlib 
without namespace prefix.  Actually I didn't see any usage
of a zlib 
with rpmz_ namespace prefix in the RPM sources so out that
went.  Is 
this something that is being phased in?

* In order to make a static build I had to add a bunch of
library 
references to the LDADD macros in the top-level and tools/ 
auto-makefiles.  Being fairly ignorant of autoconf/automake
magic I've 
probably done it wrongly but can supply what I did if
you're 
interested.

* In RPM 4.4.4 and 4.4.5 I get an error about
LUA_SPLINT_SOURCES.  It 
appears the _SOURCES suffix is upsetting automake, so I
renamed it to 
_SRCS and things went much better.

With these changes applied I got a successful build.  As an
encore it 
even cross-compiled.  Any advice or comments about what I
did above 
would be gratefully received.

Regards,
Stig Telfer

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