building source3 subsystems and libs

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2019-11-21 at 18:09 +0000, moore chestnut via samba-technical
wrote:
>   hello,
> 
> is there any way to individually build subsystems and libraries?
> 
> for example:
> 
> the msrpc3 library in  source3/wscript_build
> bld.SAMBA3_LIBRARY('msrpc3',
> 
> or
> bld.SAMBA3_SUBSYSTEM('samba3util',
> 
> when I try waf or waf msrpc3 in the source3 dir, it does not work.
> 
> currently trying on a 4.11.0 source tree.
> 
> I have read through the https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Waf
> and tried the samples with no success.
> 
> Does this work for source3 libs/subsystems?

No, you can't really build bits of Samba in general.  Some binary
targets can be specified with the --targets option, and a few of these
work correctly, nothing beyond that has been tested.  So where it works
it works, but nobody is really working to have this be a general
feature.

Andrew Bartlett

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