Where to run the 'configure' command for a 4.x member server

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 21:11 +0100, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to fresh up the 'Joining Active Directory as a Domain Member Server' 
> HowTo on the wiki for 4.x. So it was the first time, I had to compile samba 
> 4.x as a normal member server (not as DC). And there a (maybe stupid) question 
> came up:
> 
> On 3.x I run the 'configure' from inside the source3 directory. Is this still 
> the same, if I only need a normal member file server (smbd/winbind) with 
> version 4.x?
> 
> For testing I configure/make/make install from the source3 directory and the 
> fileserver seems to work like expected on a first test.
> 
> I only wanted to know if this was the right 'configure' or if the one from the 
> top level of the sources should be used in this case too, like when compiling 
> for an DC.

As per BUILD_SYSTEMS.txt and
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/BuildsystemUseAndWhy the preferred
build system is the top level build for all use cases.  

Only if that does not work (and we want to know the details of how and
why, to gauge usage and resolve issues) should user resort to the
source3/ build.

Andrew Bartlett

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