Stephan Wiehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody who got NIS working? > I tried to setup a Sparc1/Debian-Linux as NIS client (version 3.3.1-1) with > a Sparc2/SunOS4.1.3 as NIS server and it just wouldn't work, other > SunOS4.1.3 clients work fine.
Works fine here. The servers are a collection of UltraSparcs running Solaris. I have a Sparc20 and an Ultra5 running Debian as clients. > Trying to recompile NIS from the potato-sources resulted in this: > checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... no > checking for dbm_open... no > You need the GNU GDBM library or NDBM support for this package ! You need the libgdbmg1-dev package. > gdbm is definitely installed, Version 1.7.3-26 > Anyway I tried to recompile gdbm. Result: > test -f gdbmclose.c -a -f debian/rules > test root = "`whoami`" > test -f gdbmclose.c -a -f debian/rules > CONFIG_SITE="" CC="sparc-linuxlibc1-gcc" ./configure > --cache-file=configc1.cache > --prefix=/usr/sparc-linuxlibc1/ > creating cache configc1.cache > checking for gcc... sparc-linuxlibc1-gcc > checking whether the C compiler (sparc-linuxlibc1-gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot > create executables. You need the altdev stuff to recompile the GDBM package. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
