On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 01:42:23PM -0500, Dave Wagler wrote: > I'm trying to install Polkit-0.111 with PAM support; the configure command > prints these messages (among many others): > > checking security/pam_modutil.h usability... yes > checking security/pam_modutil.h presence... yes > checking for security/pam_modutil.h... yes > checking security/pam_ext.h usability... yes > checking security/pam_ext.h presence... yes > checking for security/pam_ext.h... yes > checking for pam_vsyslog in -lpam... yes > PAM support: no > > I have installed Linux-PAM-1.1.6, and a Shadow-4.1.5.1 installation does > recognize PAM. > > Any thoughts on what might be wrong? > > Thanks, > Dave
PAM is one of those things in which I have no interest, but I guess the general method of working out how to build a package, or why a dependency is not apparently satisfied, is fairly common. Try looking at the configure script. Search for that pam_vsyslog message, then look at the next chunk of the file where it tests for 'PAM support:' so you can see how, and what, it tests. Not every configure script is straightforward, but in many of them you can see a test for a string of pkgconfig files (unlikely here, I think) and in others you will see test programs trying to use a library function - like the pam_vsyslog test. I will guess that you maybe got an error message (look in config.log), or else that PAM is perhaps turned off unless you specifically enable it. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
