build nightmares

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 00:14 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> On 4 January 2011 00:08, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 16:35 -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> >> Ok, I've spent the day on this, which is my limit before asking for help.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to upgrade samba4 on my ubuntu system.  I saw that there were new
> >> .debs (obviously the preferred way for me to install it) but those failed to
> >> install.  Have those ever installed cleanly for anyone?  This time it was some
> >> unresolved symbol.
> >
> > Have you previously installed Samba from source?
> >
> > Remove all traces of any previous built-from-source ldb,tdb,talloc and
> > Samba4 from your system first.  ie, remove PREFIX/lib PREFIX/bin
> 
> For the easiest way to do this, try "git clean -xdf" to remove
> anything that's not checked in to the repository.

NO.  Perhaps I wasn't clear:  The issue I am describing is with the
installed system (the previous versions of Samba libraries that are not
overwritten on installation, as we have changed library names and
locations), not with the git checkout.  

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.