Failed Samba 4 installation

[Thomas Simmons]

Hello Jesper,

You missed the 'make' step.

./configure  --enable-debug --enable-selftest
make
make install


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jesper Koivumäki <
jesper.koivumaki at kulturfonden.fi> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just tried to install Samba4 on our RHEL6 system by following the
> instructions over at https://wiki.samba.org/index.**php/Samba4/HOWTO<https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO>
>
> I've installed the software listed on https://wiki.samba.org/index.**
> php/Samba_4/OS_Requirements<https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4/OS_Requirements>
>
> The error appears when I try to run make install (which I did with sudo,
> since we try to use the root account as little as possible).
>
> What I did was make a folder called samba4 in my home directory, to
> perform all the configuration in. Then I pulled the folder with git and got
> to work.
>
> $ ./configure  --enable-debug --enable-selftest
>
> This ran nicely and reported no errors.
>
> $ sudo make install
>
> this resulted in this:
>
> [ 229/4106] Compiling source4/heimdal/lib/com_err/**compile_et.c
> [ 230/4106] Linking default/source4/heimdal_build/**asn1_compile.inst
> [ 231/4106] Linking default/source4/heimdal_build/**compile_et.inst
> [ 232/4106] Compiling ASN1 source4/heimdal/lib/asn1/**kx509.asn1
> /bin/sh: /home/jesper/samba4/samba-**master/bin/asn1_compile: The file or
> folder does not exist
> Waf: Leaving directory `/home/jesper/samba4/samba-**master/bin'
> Build failed:  -> task failed (err #127):
>     {task: HEIMDAL_KX509_ASN1_ASN1 kx509.asn1 ->
> asn1_kx509_asn1.x,kx509_asn1.**hx,kx509_asn1-priv.hx}
> make: *** [install] Error 1
>
> Let me know if you want more lines out of the install log. But I figured
> this should be enough to figure out where things went wrong.
>
> The symlink /home/jesper/samba4/samba-**master/bin/asn1_compile exists,
> but it points to /home/jesper/samba4/samba-**master/bin/default/source4/**heimdal_build/asn1_compile
> - which doesn't exist. The only asn1* -file that exists there is
> asn1_compile.inst.
>
> I'm gonna try to figure this out and play around with it, but I'd
> appreciate some input on the matter.
>
> --
>     Jesper Koivumäki
>     Svenska Kulturfonden
>
>