[Samba] how to enable Active Directory support building samba on AIX?

[Mike Noonan]

Hi Peter,
Could you have a look in bin/config.log and see what the build error is?
It should find ldap_init
I'm also on 7.1 ML02 using xlc 12.1
However I have -lldap -llber set as well on  LDFLAGS








On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Peter Waeckerle
<peter.waeckerle at ch.ibm.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> unfortunatly I connot confirm that this patch works. Inserting the two
> lines with "headers='ldap.h...' does not make any difference.
>
> I'm using AIX 7.1 ML02, xlc 12.1.
>
> First I build openldap 2.4.39 into /usr/local/samba/samba-4.1.5. This seems
> to work correctly, there is no error with configure and make:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba/samba-4.1.5 \
>           --sysconfdir=/usr/local/samba/conf
> --localstatedir=/var/samba/openldap \
>           --mandir=/usr/local/samba/samba-4.1.5/man --with-threads=no \
>           --enable-null --enable-dnssrv --enable-bdb=no \
>           --enable-static --enable-backends=no
>
> Then I configure samba with:
>
> export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/samba/samba-4.1.5/lib
> export CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/samba/samba-4.1.5/include
>
> waf configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba/samba-4.1.5 \
>           --sysconfdir=/usr/local/samba/conf \
>           --localstatedir=/var/samba/smb \
>           --mandir=/usr/local/samba/samba-4.1.5/man \
>           --with-privatedir=/usr/local/samba/conf \
>           --with-configdir=/usr/local/samba/conf \
>           --with-piddir=/var/samba/smb/pids \
>           --with-logfilebase=/var/samba/smb/logs \
>           --with-ldap \
>           --with-ads
>
> configure DOES detect the library, it DOES detect the header files and even
> the variables which it checks are OK. It just DOES NOT detect the init
> (ialize) functions, although all is present in ldap.h:
>
> Checking for header ldap.h   : yes
> Checking for header lber.h   : yes
> Checking for header ldap_pvt.h  : no
> Checking for ber_tag_t     : ok
> Checking for library lber  : yes
> Checking for ber_scanf    : ok
> Checking for ber_sockbuf_add_io     : ok
> Checking for variable LDAP_OPT_SOCKBUF    : ok
> Checking for variable LBER_OPT_LOG_PRINT_FN     : ok
> Checking for library ldap   : yes
> Checking for ldap_init        : not found
> Checking for ldap_init_fd : not found
> Checking for ldap_initialize  : not found
> Checking for ldap_set_rebind_proc : not found
> Checking for ldap_add_result_entry  : ok
> Checking whether ldap_set_rebind_proc takes 3 arguments   : ok
> Active Directory support not available: LDAP support ist not available.
> /usr/samba-4.1.5/source3/wscript:753: error: Active Directory support not
> found. Use --without-ads for building without Active Directory support.
>
> I suspect the init function somehow is not working correctly, but I don't
> know how to check.
>
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
>
>
>
> From:   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
> To:     Christian Ambach <ambi at samba.org>
> Cc:     Mike Noonan <mike.p.noonan at gmail.com>,
>             samba-technical at lists.samba.org, Jelmer Vernooij
>             <jelmer at samba.org>, Peter Waeckerle/Switzerland/IBM at IBMCH
> Date:   03.03.2014 23:12
> Subject:        Re: [Samba] how to enable Active Directory support building
>             samba on AIX?
> Sent by:        samba-technical-bounces at lists.samba.org
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 21:55 +0100, Christian Ambach wrote:
> > Am 03.03.14 03:01, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> > > On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 19:12 +0100, Mike Noonan wrote:
> > >> Gents,
> > >> If that's not the way to do things please let me know.
> > >>
> > >> I suppose I'll become fairly active on this list as we are busy
> > >> getting samba 4.1.x to behave on AIX 7.1 using the native compiler.
> > >>
> >
> > Is this the same issue as in Bug 10047?
> > (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10047)
> >
> > Maybe the CC list on that bug can help to verify the patch as I do not
> > have direct access to AIX machines any more and so it becomes kind of
> > unefficient when making educated guesses and asking somebody else to
> > verify if the attempt works out or not.
> >
> > > Thanks!  Can you add your signed-off-by per
> > >
> > > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/CodeReview
> > >
> > > Then I'll just wait on Christian's OK and we can get this merged.
> > > Thanks for helping to keep Samba portable!
> >
> > I can give my ok, but it would be better to have reports from AIX users
> > that the problem is really solved before we include it.
>
> Indeed!  I wasn't aware you had moved out of the AIX world.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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