anybody else having trouble with tng cvs, configure, and locking?

[Lars Kneschke]

Matthew Geddes wrote:
> 
> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> > It's entirely possible that I've fouled something up on my machine when I
> > did a rebuild, but I've done two more re-installs of RH6.1 since then, and
> > can't figure it out.  I did a checkout of samba tng this morning, and when I
> > run configure --prefix=/opt/samba, it zips (well, ponders) through a zillion
> > checks, but pukes on the check for locking.  To be more specific
> > 'checking configure summary
> > ERROR: No locking available. Running Samba would be unsafe
> > configure: error: summary failure. Aborting config'
> >
> > Seems to me that I'm probably broken, but how?  Thanks,
> >         Greg
> 
> Me three. Same problem on SuSE 6.2 and two seperate RH 6.0 boxes. I had
> a look further up on the reams of configure output and found that it
> barfs at the fcntl and 64-bit fcntl locking lines (well not really barf
> as such, more a line with a 'no' on the end).
There was a bug in the configure script. The configure script
wants to evaluate "$CPP $CPPFLAGS test.c". But $CPP and $CPPFLAGS
were empty. And shells can't execute test.c. That's why the test
had failed.

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