[Samba] Building Samba on Solaris

[Thomas Schulz]

> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:15:47AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 01:56:33PM -0500, Thomas Schulz wrote:
> > > > For anyone wanting to build and install Samba on a Solaris machine:
> > > > I have successfully built and installed Samba 4.1.4 on a Solaris 10 i386
> > > > machine. You will have to build and install a newer version of Python
> > > > before you can configure Samba. You must configure Python with
> > > > --enable-shared. See bug 10261 at bugzilla.samba.org for the details
> > > > of why that is.
> > > > 
> > > > If you are going to build Samba with the gcc compiler you will have to
> > > > edit a script in lib/replace in the Samba source. See bug 10261 at
> > > > bugzilla.samba.org for the fix.
> > > > 
> > > > If you ae going to build Samba with the Sun c compiler you will have to
> > > > apply a fix first. See bug 10315 at bugzilla.samba.org for the details.
> > > > 
> > > > The resultant binaries and libraries do not end up with a run path pointing
> > > > to the place where Samba will be installed. To fix that set the run path
> > > > with the LDFLAGS environmental variable when configuring Samba. For example
> > > > if you want to install Samba in /opt/local/samba4, configure as follows:
> > > > 
> > > > #! /bin/sh
> > > > LDFLAGS="-R/opt/local/samba4/lib:/opt/local/samba4/lib/private" \
> > > > ./configure configure  --prefix=/opt/local/samba4
> > > > 
> > > > Tom Schulz
> > > > Applied Dynamics Intl.
> > > > schulz at adi.com
> > > 
> > > If you're interested in Samba on Solaris could I put
> > > upon you to test this patch ?
> > > 
> > > It's an implementation of Solaris ports as a tevent
> > > background. I've sent this to the Oracle Samba Solaris
> > > maintainer but got no feedback. I'd love to know if
> > > this helps with Samba running on Solaris.
> > > 
> > > It still applies to current master. Feedback most
> > > welcome !
> > 
> > Gah. Attaching the patch helps :-).
> 
> That certainly would help! Give it one more try! :-)

Nevermind, I found the email with the patch. Sorry for the noise.


Tom Schulz
Applied Dynamics Intl.
schulz at adi.com