[Freeipa-users] RHEL 5 Compiling ipa-client (only) from source

[Marc Richards]

On 01/14/2009 5:29 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Marc Richards wrote:
>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> Viji V Nair wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>     I have done a manual compilation of ipa-client on an RHEL 5.2
>>>     x86_64 system. After struggling with a lot of errors I finally got
>>>     it working by following the below steps. Can anyone suggest is
>>>     there anything wrong in my steps? Can I use the same steps to
>>>     configure other clients also?
>>> You'd be better off using the attached patch. This will let you do a 
>>> build from the top-level and avoid all the version problems. Plus it 
>>> can build rpms for you.
>>> % make IPA_VERSION_IS_GIT_SNAPSHOT=no local-dist
>>>
>>> The rpms will be in dist/rpms
>>>
>>> rob
>>>
>>
>> Does this replace everything after step 2 or everything after step 4?
>
> Step 2. The new steps are:
>
> 1. Download and un-compress freeipa source, 
> http://freeipa.org/downloads/src/freeipa-1.2.1.tar.gz
> % tar -zxvf freeipa-1.2.1.tar.gz
> % cd freeipa-1.2.1
>
> 2. Apply the patch
> % patch -p1 < /path/to/make.patch
>
> 3. Get the prerequisites
> yum -y install autoconf automake pkgconfig libtool mozldap-devel 
> krb5-devel openldap-devel python-ldap
>
> You'll need to get python-krbV from EPEL 
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL)
>
> 4. Make rpms
> % make IPA_VERSION_IS_GIT_SNAPSHOT=no local-dist
>
> The rpms will be in dist/rpms
>
Thanks. I'll give that a shot.