I have built rpm (Version 4.14.1) with the usual trilogy:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
This went without error and the rpm executable was installed, as expected, into /usr/bin/rpm.
When I then tried to execute rpm, it wouldn't do anything and exit with Unable to open /usr/local/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: No such file or directory..
When I then created a symbolic link ln -s /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc /usr/local/lib/rpm/rpmrc, the executable rpm could be started.
Is this behaviour expected? Should make install not place the rpmrc file into a place where rpm finds it?