I have heard one report about errors building Samba 3..6.25 + the Badlock fixes ...

[Andreas Schneider]

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:11:02 AM Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Monday, May 02, 2016 02:10:21 PM Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >> 
> >> It seems that some versions of CentOS 6.x have a version of patch that
> >> causes problems.
> >> 
> >> It seems you need patch version 2.7 or better.
> > 
> > It works just fine as you can see that we have RHEL packages. If you can't
> > provide details we can't help ...
> 
> The person who reported this problem was building on CentOS 6.5 and
> started with the 3.6.25 tarball.
> 
> It was curious because I could not repro the issue starting either
> with the tarball or the git repository.
> 
> However, it seems that RHEL/CentOS 6.5 had an older version of patch
> that did not understand the move of one file, and this caused linking
> problems.
> 
> When he upgraded to patch 2.7 things worked fine, so possibly the
> instructions should suggest doing a yum upgrade of patch first.

Thanks for the clarification! Also a hint for distributions, you should 
rebuild the manpages!