samba.git top-level build issue (default/source3/libsmbconf.so)

[Andreas Schneider]

On Wednesday 22 June 2011 12:07:08 you wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 08:41 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 01:52 +0300, Andrew Shinkarchuck wrote:
> > > Hello everyone!
> > > 
> > > I have tried to build current samba.git tree at my Debian Lenny
> > > computer (64 bit - gcc 4.3.2, python 2.5.2 and so on like in
> > > default "Lenny" distro) but got error at almost finish of "make"
> > > without any options to ./configure besides --prefix=/usr/samba
> > 
> > I've put a patch into the tree that should fix the issue for you.
> > 
> > We were experimenting with using a linker option -Wl,--as-needed that
> > matches the default behaviour of Gentoo.  However since we enabled the
> > build of Samba3 binaries in the top level build a few weeks ago, it has
> > caused problems on a number of hosts.  The exact hosts and problems
> > seems to come down to library link orders, and is related to the fact
> > that our implementation of build rules for this code is not finished
> > (due to circular and other challenging dependency issues).
> > 
> > I am sorry for the frustration this has caused, and we will resolve
> > these properly before we re-enable this option.  Unfortunately users on
> > Gentoo will continue to experience these issues until then, as this flag
> > is on by default on that platform.
> 
> Andreas,

Andrew,

> The issue here stems from libsmbconf.so not fully specifying it's
> dependencies.  Can you look into this?  I know you were starting on this
> with your s3-auth patches.

I've looked at the problem. All you need to do is to link against samba3core, 
but this doesn't work.

The problem is a circualar dependency:

SECRETS3 links against passdb (which is wrong)
passdb links against SECRETS3

This has been introduced with 25cfa29e29bdbb6c84bd85ea02ec542228ae585f

Cheers,


	-- andreas

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