On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, Tony den Haan wrote: > > > hi, > > > > i'm still having trouble building shadow-4.0.3 against libpam. configure > > In Linux-PAM, libpam_misc schould be linked against libpam. That is > a minor Linux-PAM bug which has no real effect in practice, because well, it did affect me, since build would break... > everybody using libpam_misc also uses libpam. i wasn't sure what you meant, and went for ./configure --disable-dynamic which, to my surprise, *did* produce a libpam_misc.so, which was statically linked itself, and shadow actually built... > > But the shadow maintainer is also wrong. The configure script is to > detect special things like such bugs. He should apply the patch to > his configure script as correct workaround. or at least a tip/explanation why building shadow fails :-) thanks, tony
