[Samba] Build error while compiling 4.9.8 when using gcc 4.8.5

[Rowland penny]

On 02/06/2019 19:53, Alex Braunegg via samba wrote:
> Thanks for that suggestion, however that piece is a 'work in progress', but not the actual problem I am facing right now.
>
> FYI - domain controller piece works flawlessly on the 4.4.180 kernel build based around CentOS6 including many integration tests to Windows DC / replication and the like that I have configured.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nkadel at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 2 June 2019 9:26 PM
> To: Alex Braunegg
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Build error while compiling 4.9.8 when using gcc 4.8.5
>
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 6:02 AM Alex Braunegg via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> In attempting to build Samba 4.9.8 on CentOS 6 using mock, but using Kernel
>> 4.19.46 as a base, Samba failed to compile spitting out the following error:
> Friend, I urge you to get off of CentOS 6 for domain controllers.
> Trying to keep current versions of Samba backported that far is just
> not going to be your friend. I had to give up on that years ago. RHEL
> 7 and CentOS 7 work fine from my testing, if you do the extra work
> I've taken the liberty of publishing over at
> https://github.com/nkadel/samba4repo/
>
>
I think what Nico was trying to point out was, Centos 6 is virtually 
EOL, it will only get security updates.

You are trying to build Samba on an EOL OS version, using a kernel 
version that Centos 8 will not have when it comes out and the rest of 
the OS is very old, why ?

Surely you would be better off using Centos 7 or better still Fedora 
(Note that Centos 6 is based on a mix of Fedora 12 & 13, Fedora is now 
at version 30)

Which OS & version you use is your choice, but using Centos 6 to try and 
compile a supported Samba version is bound to cause problems, more than 
likely the required library versions will be too old. You may have to 
change that much that the OS will no longer really be Centos 6.

Rowland