Building Samba 4.14 on CentOS 8.0 and gnutls

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:44 PM Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org> wrote:
>
> On to, 11 helmi 2021, Richard Sharpe via samba-technical wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am slowly getting Samba to build.
> >
> > The latest problem I hit is this:
> >
> > -------------------
> > Checking compiler accepts ['-Wno-error=unused-result']
> >                          : yes
> > Using in-tree heimdal kerberos defines
> > Checking for GnuTLS >= 3.4.7
> >                          : not found
> > ---------------------
> >
> > However, what was required was not gnutls (which was already
> > installed) but gnutls-devel.
> >
> > How can this be fixed?
>
> By installing corresponding development packages. Almost all checks in
> that configure check do check for a presence of development parts of the
> packages, not just binary libraries. Please follow instructions as
> provided in the other response.

Sure. I eventually got it to build, but my complaint is that the error
message was misleading ...

> Perhaps an easier way would be to install 'yum-utils' if they are
> missing and do
>
> # yum-builddep samba

Hmmm, learn something new everyday.

> That implies you have source repositories available (they'll be
> automatically enabled for this specific operation) and it would pull
> a list of packages required by the source package.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者)