samba - Apr 2000 - Samba 2.0.7 configure-script disfunction.

If I do this on a Solaris 8, x86:

tar xzf samba-2.0.7.tar.gz
cd samba-2.0.7
mkdir OBJ/somedir
cd OBJ/somedir
../../configure --prefix=/usr/someplace
and then:
make

it doesn't mkdir "bin" for me, making it compile all
the way until it is about to link bin/smbd.

The linker gives me a message about not being able to find
"bin/smbd" which is kind of misleading. 8-(

Anyway, doing a quick "mkdir bin" and restarting the
make again solved the problems. I guess the Makefile
should do this somewhere.

PS. Why only -O for optimization in gcc? Everyone else
    seems to use -O2..
DS.

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On Apr 27, 2000, Janne Johansson <jj@dynarc.se> wrote:
> it doesn't mkdir "bin" for me, making it compile all
> the way until it is about to link bin/smbd.
> Anyway, doing a quick "mkdir bin" and restarting the
> make again solved the problems. I guess the Makefile
> should do this somewhere.
It does.  The problem is that, for some reason, bin/.dummy was
included in the distribution, so make found it because of VPATH, and
didn't create it in the build tree.  bin/.dummy shouldn't be included
in the distribution.

Jeremy, any chance of fixing this for the next release?

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