samba - Apr 2025 - How to determine Samba Installation directory

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 3:41?PM Mark Foley via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> I'm building Samba from a scratch download from samba.org.  One of the
./configure
> options is --prefix, which directs where to install the files.
>
> The "default" is /usr/local/samba, but from experience I know my
distro does not
> put the files there. There is nothing in either my /usr/lib/samba or
> /usr/local/samba.
>
> How can I determine where my current --prefix directory is?
If you have a config.site, then the default installation directories
are taken from it. However, once ./configure is run, you often have a
*.pc file that provides the directories.

Also see bug reports like
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510073>.

Jeff

The instructions at
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller#Only_Applicable_if_Samba_was_Previously_Installed
can be helpful:

# smbd -b | egrep "LOCKDIR|STATEDIR|CACHEDIR|PRIVATE_DIR"
  LOCKDIR: /usr/local/samba/var/lock/
  STATEDIR: /usr/local/samba/var/locks/
  CACHEDIR: /usr/local/samba/var/cache/
  PRIVATE_DIR: /usr/local/samba/private/



-- Peter
> On Apr 30, 2025, at 4:40?PM, Jeffrey Walton via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> ?On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 3:41?PM Mark Foley via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm building Samba from a scratch download from samba.org.  One of
the ./configure
>> options is --prefix, which directs where to install the files.
>> 
>> The "default" is /usr/local/samba, but from experience I know
my distro does not
>> put the files there. There is nothing in either my /usr/lib/samba or
>> /usr/local/samba.
>> 
>> How can I determine where my current --prefix directory is?
> 
> If you have a config.site, then the default installation directories
> are taken from it. However, once ./configure is run, you often have a
> *.pc file that provides the directories.
> 
> Also see bug reports like
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510073>.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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On Wed Apr 30 16:39:51 2025 Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 3:41?PM Mark Foley via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm building Samba from a scratch download from samba.org.  One of
the ./configure
> > options is --prefix, which directs where to install the files.
> >
> > The "default" is /usr/local/samba, but from experience I
know my distro does not
> > put the files there. There is nothing in either my /usr/lib/samba or
> > /usr/local/samba.
> >
> > How can I determine where my current --prefix directory is?
>
> If you have a config.site, then the default installation directories
> are taken from it. However, once ./configure is run, you often have a
> *.pc file that provides the directories.
>
> Also see bug reports like
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510073>.
>
> Jeff
I don't have a config.site. I used the pre-built distro Samba and did not
initially build it myself, so no *.pc either.

I'll check out your bugzilla link before I pull the trigger.

THX --Mark