[Samba] Compiling Samba For OPENLinux 3.1.1

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Karl Banasky wrote:

> That seems to be great.  Thanks for the tip John.  When i run the
> "makerpms.sh" I get this error:
> checking whether or not getgroups returns EGID too many times... yes
> checking whether struct passwd has pw_comment... no
> checking whether struct passwd has pw_age... no
> checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... no
> checking whether to use included popt... ./popt
> checking configure summary... configure: error: summary failure. Aborting
> config
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.11664 (%build)
> [root at heatconlinux OpenLinux]#
>
> Any ideas on what the error is and how to fix it?

Sorry, this does not nail it down. You need to make sure that the *devel*
packages are installed on your OLS 3.1.1 system. In particular you need to
check that libpam-devel and readline are installed (from memory).

- John T.

> Thanks
> Karl
>
>
>
> > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Karl Banasky wrote:
> >
> >> Hello.  I am looking to get the parameters that the Caldera RPM was
> >> made with.  I have noticed that it is not being updated and would like
> >> to get the current ver. on my system, but need to have the same links
> >> to various files.  Can anyone help me to find the parameters?  I would
> >> be interested in making the RPMs but need to know how to make them
> >> first, maybe some direction to info on making RPMs.  Thank you.
> >
> > 1. Untar the samba-2.2.8.tar.gz file
> > 2. cd samba-2.2.8/packagin/Caldera/OpenLinux
> > 3. sh makerpms.sh
> >
> > Wait until building finishes ...
> > 4. cd /usr/src/OpenLinux/RPMS/i386
> >
> > ls -al
> >
> > You should have all your binary RPMS ready to roll. I have not been able
> > to validate this since I left Caldera I no longer run OpenLinux 3.1.1.
> >
> > - John T.
> > --
> > John H Terpstra
> > Email: jht at samba.org
>
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org