failing to make samba on AIX 5.3

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:16:37PM +1100, Jason Pay wrote:
> Hi all, I'm hoping someone can give me some help/advice/hints on the 
> following...
> .
> I did get to the same point under a combination of gcc and rpm/bff 
> packages till I resorted to building from scratch what I could.
> The RPMs listed below, I couldn't manage to build from source.
> I've really tried hard to get past this point but I'm just guessing 
> now....
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
> OSlevel: AIX 5.3 TL9 latest SP.
> Additional AIX OS packages installed
>         krb5 1.4.0.7
>         bos.adt.libm v5.3.9.3
> Compiler:
>         IBM xlC v11.1.0.1
> RPMs installed:
>         automake-1.11.1-0
>         autoconf-2.63-1
>         m4-1.4.14-1
> Compiled from source:
>         Python-2.6.5
>         bash-4.1
>         gettext-0.18
>         libtool-2.2.10
>         make-3.82
>         pkg-config-0.25
>         readline-6.1
>         termcap-1.3.1
>         otermutils-2.0
> 
> 
> # pwd
> /samba/samba-3.5.4/source4
> # ./configure
> SAMBA VERSION: 4.0.0alpha9-GIT-UNKNOWN

In case you want to build Samba4, you should use the current
code from the git master branch. In case you want to build
Samba 3.5.4, you should do the configure/make in the source3
subdir, not source4.

Volker