[Samba] Error

Michael Wood esiotrot at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 06:06:46 MDT 2012


On 24 October 2012 13:11, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 20:05 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 11:00 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew
> > >
> > > On 24 October 2012 10:06, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:16 -0400, sandy.napoles at eccmg.cupet.cu wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > See this line:
> > > >
> > > > > If you have not changed any ABI, and your platform always gives this
> > > > > error, please configure with --abi-check-disable to skip this check
> > >
> > > Since an end-user is unlikely to have changed the ABI or know what
> > > that means, perhaps that message would make more sense if reworded?
> > >
> > > e.g.:
> > >
> > > Please report this error to ... along with the version of your OS and
> > > Samba (and gdb or whatever else you need to know).  In the mean time,
> > > you can rerun configure with the --abi-check-disable option.
> >
> > It already only happens with ./configure.developer or --enable-developer
> >
> > What we probably need to do is stop suggesting that option.
>
> I've corrected this in the HOWTO, which should (eventually) help.

Seems like a reasonable solution to me :)

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>


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