On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 14:55 +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:49:47PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett scribbled: > [snip] > > > > and add it to the already too many patches in Samba for debian. Then > > > > work with jra and jerry on making this upstream, if it can be done > > > > portably. I can't imagine building the other utilities will be a big > > > > pain. The tricky bit might be deciding to use the separate makefile or > > > > the main build system. > > > I think the best idea would be to just create a Makefile.libtdb by hand > > > and > > > slam it in the source/tdb/ directory > > > > This is exactly what already exists, I'm suggesting just patching the > > extra in. > You missed my point :) - I suggest adding another Makefile in the > source/tdb/ dir and not touching the original one - that way, the changes > stay clear of the upstream samba code == less ado with maintaining that > patch should the original Makefile change. After all, it's a Debian-specific > thing we're talking about :) (especially that, as we say below, the core > samba should not link against the shared tdb library - the more reason not > to touch the upstream source/tdb/ Makefile IMO)
The core Samba doesn't use the source/tdb Makefile. Samba compiles tdb for it's purposes from the main source/Makefile. Adding the extra targets for libtdb to the end of that file should not be too painful... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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