sorta newb help compiling samba

[Adam Vandemore]

Karl Vogel wrote:
>>> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:21:17 -0500, 
>>> "Gary Gatten" <Ggatten at waddell.com> said:
>>>       
>
> G> I've been playing with various flavors of *nix off and on for almost twenty
> G> years, but not doing much development the make process often causes me
> G> issues - as is the case with samba.
>
>    This is why I only use the ports system for small, simple builds like
>    rsync.  For anything major (Perl, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, Apache ...) I either
>    use a pre-built package or build directly from source.  I used these
>    commands for my most recent Samba build:
>
>    me% CC=gcc ./configure --with-acl-support \
>       --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc \
>       --prefix=/usr/local
>    me% make
>    root# make install
>
>    I use a (fairly generic) script to handle starting and stopping Samba
>    cleanly.  It also handles log rotation.  It's attached below, if you're
>    interested.  The "killpg" program used is derived from kill, but sends its
>    signals to a process group instead of a process.
>
>   
How do you handle major builds that use FBSD specific 
patches....asterisk for example?

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