[Samba] Building samba for Ubuntu 18.04

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 20:11:19 -0400
Jonathan Kreider via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> I would like to develop my own ability to build samba for Ubuntu. The
> Ubuntu packages are woefully out of date.
> 
> My main question is whether I should build samba with the same
> configuration options as the Ubuntu packages, or use the default samba
> configuration. Mostly I'm concerned about the paths.
> 
> Also, I would build the full version of samba with AD DC and member
> server capabilities FWIW.
> 
> Thanks

As I did this yesterday, I can confirm it is possible, but you will
need to backport and build these packages from 18.10:

tdb-1.3.18, talloc-2.1.16, tevent-0.9.39 and ldb-1.5.4

Rowland