build nightmares

[Michael Wood]

On 4 January 2011 00:22, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 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.

Ah sorry, I think you were clear enough.  I just need to go to bed :)

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>