[Samba] Error in configure Last CVS and 3.0.alpha21 on Solaris 8

[Jim McDonough]

 > ld: fatal: library -lpopt: not found
> >
>     The last line is the important one, I think: you need the popt library. On Solaris 8, for example, I believe that even the pre-packaged versions from sunfreeware.com require that the popt package be installed at the same time.
>    Look at www.sunfreeware.com for a pre-compiled binary or source code.
You shouldn't need it.  Samba has a built-in popt in the event that you
don't...it should be detecting this.  Are you sure this is the problem? 
This is one of the last steps before it finishes...you can try
--with-included-popt.  If that doesn't help, you've got a different
problem.