Proposal: Split libtalloc, libtdb, libtevent and libldb into a separate upstream project

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Mon Jan 10 07:15:05 MST 2011


Am 10.01.2011 15:03, schrieb Matthieu Patou:
> 
>> 4) We should change the default behavior of configuration of the sources
>> to be --bundled-libraries=NONE instead of --bundled-libraries=AUTO. This
>> is a tangentially-related topic that would make things simpler for
>> distribution packagers.
> If we should select, I think this should be done only for release
> tarball and with big fat warning for early adopters of s4 who compile
> directly from the tarball.
> Otherwise we will have a tons of : I can't compile s4 ...
> IMHO I would keep the auto mode and just notify the distros so that in
> their build script the add the --bundled-libraries=NONE
> I guess it's easier to ask 100+ (at most ?) more experimented persons
> (distro maintainers for those packages) that to try to educate the rest
> of the persons who are downloading s4.

The default should only change for talloc, tdb, tevent and ldb
not for samba.

And for all cases we need to improve the error messages to make it
easier to find the correct magic to solve the problem.

metze

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