Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:31:06 -0500,
Adam Vandemore <amvandemore@xxxxxxxxx> said:

A> How do you handle major builds that use FBSD specific patches....
A> asterisk for example?

Fortunately I haven't had to build asterisk or anything else that large.
If I did, I'd probably try building under Solaris first, and when
installing under FBSD, I'd examine any patches and put them in by hand.

My only experience with a major ports build was attempting to upgrade
Firefox; 20 minutes after starting, I was left with a literally
unbootable system. I had to yank the drive, give it to a buddy to
verify that my files were still present, do a complete installation
with a more recent FBSD version on a clean drive, and restore my stuff
from the original system.

I'm perfectly willing to admit that I botched something in the Firefox
upgrade, but I've also run into problems installing anything that remotely
depends on perl. I use the same version on all my servers, and I got
tired of seeing "unable to find perl-5.8.whatever"; configure scripts
test for capability rather than version number to avoid this problem.
Some of my servers are not allowed to have any network access, which
means no chasing dependencies; I put in a CD with some source and run
a build script.

--
Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company

Seen in an East African newspaper: A new swimming pool is rapidly taking
shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.
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