>>> cc -g -xs -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DNE_LFS -o
>>> .libs/rpmconstant constant.o  -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib
>>> ./.libs/librpmconstant.so -ldl -lm -lpopt -lbeecrypt -lpthread
>>> /usr/local/lib/libneon.so -lssl -lcrypto -lnsl -lsocket -lz
>>> /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so  -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib
>>> Undefined                       first referenced
>>>  symbol                             in file
>>> rpmdsInit                           constant.o
>>> rpmdsNext                           constant.o
>>> rpmdsTagN                           constant.o
>>> rpmHeaderFormats                    constant.o
>>> hdrVec                              constant.o
>>> rpmTagTable                         constant.o
>>> rpmdsSearch                         constant.o
>>> rpmdsResult                         constant.o
>>> rpmTags                             constant.o
>>> rpmdsIx                             constant.o
>>> rpmdsDNEVR                          constant.o
>>> rpmdsSetResult                      constant.o
>>> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
>>> .libs/rpmconstant
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Weird. None of those symbols are used (or needed by) rpmconstant.
>> [...]
>>
>> Here's what I see on linux/i386 w gcc:
>> [...]
>
> Same for me. I even tried under sparc64-solaris9 today myself and at
> least with the "./devtool standalone" procedure and CC=gcc I *CANNOT*
> reproduce the problem. Either it is related to the used C compiler
> (perhaps Sun Studio?) or some other local problem.
>
>                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
>                                       rse@engelschall.com
>                                       www.engelschall.com
>

I figured out what is going on here. Like I originally thought, Sun Studio 
is including the functions it finds through included headers, but since 
you're using GCC I'm guessing that's why you don't have the same issue. 
The functions aren't actually needed, so they're not linked, and thus we 
have the missing symbols. I started looking through the included headers 
in rpmconstant.h and it seems (to me at least) that most of these aren't 
necessary and are included by default. All the symbols that are missing 
can be traced back to these, so as a test I removed all the 
unecessarily included headers and *poof* the rpmconstant Makefile 
builds and completes without missing symbols! ;)

I'm going to see how the rest of the package builds now. Would it be 
possible to get the extra includes taken out of rpmconstant.h?

Thanks,
-Dave