Compiling a Caldera Friendly Samba 2.2.0

[Man-wai Chang]

toylet at server: include> pwd
/usr/src/samba-2.2.8a/source/include
toylet at server: include> ls libsm* -l
-rw-r--r--    1 783      783         27621 Feb  2  2002 libsmbclient.h

toylet at server: bin> pwd
/usr/src/samba-2.2.8a/source/bin
toylet at server: bin> ls libsmbclient* -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       821946 Apr 13 18:38 libsmbclient.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       704805 Apr 13 18:38 libsmbclient.so

toylet at server: include> rpm -qil samba | grep lib

will give you nothing. note that I installed my samba-2.2.8a via
checkinstall.

Man-wai Chang wrote:

> 1. should the instructions from the webpage include the removal of 
> libsmbclient via rpm -e libsmbclient? The one that came with COL 3.1 was 
> 2.2.2 only.
> 
> 2. the build instructions didn't include the option "--with-libsmbclient".
> 
> 3. after make and make install, one had to manually copy libsmbclient.so 
> and libsmbclient.a from source/bin to /usr/lib, and libsmbclient.h from 
> source/include to /usr/include. should these steps be included as well?
> 
> <quote>
> 
> remove samba and samba-doc rpm with
> 
> rpm -e samba<enter>
> rpm -e samba-doc<enter>
> 
> rpm --rebuilddb<enter> (this rebuilds database)
> updatedb<enter> (updates find database, I think)
> 
> </quote>
>