[Samba] Re: ./configure --with-pam fails always

[John H Terpstra]

Dragan,

Thanks for jumping to Philippes' defense. Sometimes it is needed.

I apologise if I sounded harsh. No offense intended.

It would have helped had he just mentioned Linux. PAM is supported on all
the BSD family, on HPUX, AIX (in a way) and Sun Solaris. Just mentioning
PAM does not cut it so far as information needed goes.

In any case, Philippe, you need to install the devel packages.
I have no idea what the current dependencies are. Dependencies vary
considerably for SuSE and Red Hat Linux each time a new release comes out.
The simplest thing you can do is install all the development libraries.

PS: The dependencies for SuSE 8.1 and 8.2 are very different.

- John T.


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Dragan Krnic wrote:

> John, don't be harsh with Philippe. To answer his
> question, you don't really need any more information
> than what he abundantly provided in his mailing.
>
> His problem is that he hasn't installed the ldap-devel
> or pam-devel or some other of the more than 100 devel packages that might be needed to compile samba with
> a distinctive set of --with-this-or-that options.
>
> His compiler simply cannot link to -lpam when
> compiling EGID and popt tests. So find out which
> package contains libpam.so and install it.
>
> I think it would be a constructive remedy if you could
> post on samba's site at a conspicuous spot the
> required devel package dependences for people who
> roll their own installation.
>
> Cheers
> Dragan
>
> PS: By asking him for further information, you're
> just calling for more trouble, since he will probably
> again quote initial letter as aggressively as you did.
>
>
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org