Glyn Kennington wrote (in a message from Saturday 18)
> I just (well, it took nearly 10 hours, so not `just', but recently) compiled
> the whole 4.2.99.3 release. make World completed successfully, but when I
> came to make install, I got the following error:
>
> installing in programs/xdm...
> make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/src/Xfree86/xc/programs/xdm'
> rm -f auth.o
> gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith
>-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls
>-Wnested-externs -Wundef -I../.. -I../../exports/include -Dlinux -D__i386__
>-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE
>-D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO
>-DBINDIR=\"/usr/X11R6/bin\" -DXDMDIR=\"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm\"
> -DUSESHADOW -DUSE_PAM -DUNIXCONN -DTCPCONN -DHAS_STICKY_DIR_BIT
>-DHAS_FCHOWN -DGREET_USER_STATIC -DFRAGILE_DEV_MEM
>-DOSMAJORVERSION=2 -DOSMINORVERSION=4 -DXPM
>-DUSE_XINERAMA auth.c
> In file included from auth.c:44:
> dm.h:105: security/pam_appl.h: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [auth.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/src/Xfree86/xc/programs/xdm'
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/src/Xfree86/xc/programs'
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/src/Xfree86/xc'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> The problem was that I didn't have libpam-dev installed. I quickly sorted
> that out, and finished the install. The query, then: Maybe I'm just used
> to being spoon-fed by ./configure scripts, but
>
> 1) Shouldn't all libraries be checked for fairly early in the build process?
> 2) Shouldn't this program (and the rest in programs/xdm) be necessary for
> make World, rather than only being compiled for the `install' target?
>
make World is set up to ignore errors during build, in order to speed
up recoveries after a failure. (All parts not affected by the error
are still built).
If you perfer to have make World stop at the 1st error use the
followin command, instead of just make World:
make Workld WORLDOPTS=
Matthieu
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