samba - Sep 2012 - Samba 4 rc1 installation attempts

All going fine with new RC1, however one suggestion I would make for the 
new configure scripts which are much more helpful than the old style 
ones, would be to put more of a warning about ACL support being needed 
to successfully provision an domain - or make it a configure failure if 
this is not found? Maybe with an option to pass to configure to allow 
overriding the error???

. I was aware of the requirement, but have just managed somehow to build 
it without ACL installed on an old test machine which has taken a good 
hour to build samba!

Many thanks for all the work, and hopefully going to get samba 4 into a 
semi production environment this weekend as the admins domain 
controller. If all goes well I may well role it out to a wider 
enviroment later on.

James

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 22:50 +0100, James Cronin wrote:
> All going fine with new RC1, however one suggestion I would make for the 
> new configure scripts which are much more helpful than the old style 
> ones, would be to put more of a warning about ACL support being needed 
> to successfully provision an domain - or make it a configure failure if 
> this is not found? Maybe with an option to pass to configure to allow 
> overriding the error???
> 
> . I was aware of the requirement, but have just managed somehow to build 
> it without ACL installed on an old test machine which has taken a good 
> hour to build samba!
This is actually a known issue, and one I had hoped to have time to
address for RC1.  It even got as far as an explicit promise to do
exactly that at the bottom of BUILD_SYSTEMS.txt.  I just haven't had
time to look into the practical details.  We would do the same with ldap
dev libaries (so that any build with waf would be an ADS build, for
similar reasons), libxattr and a few other 'optional' thing that you
don't want to skip on a modern unix. 

Andrew Bartlett

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