Stephan Wiehr wrote: > Hi! > > Anybody who got NIS working? > I tried to setup a Sparc1/Debian-Linux as NIS client (version 3.3.1-1) with > a Sparc2/SunOS4.1.3 as NIS server and it just wouldn't work, other > SunOS4.1.3 clients work fine. > > Trying to recompile NIS from the potato-sources resulted in this: > > checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... no > checking for dbm_open... no > You need the GNU GDBM library or NDBM support for this package ! > > gdbm is definitely installed, Version 1.7.3-26 > Anyway I tried to recompile gdbm. Result: > > test -f gdbmclose.c -a -f debian/rules > test root = "`whoami`" > test -f gdbmclose.c -a -f debian/rules > CONFIG_SITE="" CC="sparc-linuxlibc1-gcc" ./configure > --cache-file=configc1.cache > --prefix=/usr/sparc-linuxlibc1/ > creating cache configc1.cache > checking for gcc... sparc-linuxlibc1-gcc > checking whether the C compiler (sparc-linuxlibc1-gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot > create executables. > > Well, now I'm totally confused...
There is a conflict between some headers in libc5-dev that output warnings (see config.log). This is why configure fails (stderr should be empty). Regards. PS: I need to repackage the libc5 stuff but I don't have the time right now. Sorry. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)