Samba installation from ports over NFS

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 10:57 am, Andrew P. wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My /usr/ports is a network file-system. When I try to install samba 3
> it says:
>
> satsmb# make install
> ===>   samba-3.0.9,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf259 -
> found ===>   samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: cups.2 - found
> ===>   samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: popt.0 - found ===>  
> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: ldap-2.2.7 - found ===>  
> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found ===> 
> Configuring for samba-3.0.9,1
> autom4te259: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 (perhaps
> you are running make -j on a lame NFS client?): Operation not
> supported *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/net/samba3.
>
>
> Can I fix this without learning all autoconf caveats?
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Andrew P.

You can do something like make install WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp
if /tmp is on a local file system to get around the lock problem. 

-Mike