[Samba] Updating Samba

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 13:01 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:34:50 +0200
> René Schmidt via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > I have an Ubuntu server installed on the Samba 4.3.11 Ubuntu from the
> > Ubuntu sources. Now I want to update Samba. I downloaded the version
> > 4.8.3 of samba.org (tar.gz) and unzipped it. ./configure always fails:
> > 
> > Checking for program krb5-config.heimdal: not found
> > Checking for program krb5-config: not found
> > Checking for program pkg-config: not found
> > Checking for gnutls> = 3.4.7: not found
> > Checking for program pkg-config: not found
> > Checking for gnutls> = 3.0.0s: not found
> > Checking for program pkg-config: not found
> > Checking for gnutls> = 1.4.0 and broken versions: not found
> > /srv/wget/samba-4.8.3/source4/lib/tls/wscript:51: error: Building the
> > AD DC requires GnuTLS (eg libgnutls-dev, gnutls-devel) for ldaps: //
> > support and for the BackupKey protocol
> > 
> > But libgnutls-dev is installed:
> > dpkg -l | grep libgnutls-dev
> > ii libgnutls-dev 2.12.23-12ubuntu2.8 amd64 GNU TLS library -
> > development files
> > 
> > Where is the problem?
> > 
> > Many thanks for the help...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> You do not seem to have all the required build packages installed.
> You also haven't told us what version of Ubuntu you are using.

This is quite likely the issue, the gnutls checks rely on pkg-config.

Andrew Bartlett

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