[Samba] Building Samba on Solaris

[Thomas Schulz]

> 
> 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 !
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Jeremy.

I applied the patch. Confugure correctly runs the new two checks and
make compiles tevent.c and tevent_port.c with no warnings. No testing
yet. At the moment I don't know enough to know what to test.

Tom Schulz
Applied Dynamics Intl.
schulz at adi.com