Re: Building Netscape C LDAP SDK 3.0 on unix

["Michael R. Gettes" <gettes@Princeton.EDU>]

Make sure you have the latest gmake installed.  The install instructions
state this at the top.

/mrg

patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote:

> Has anyone on this list successfully built the Netscape C LDAP
> SDK 3.0 under unix ?
>
> I've downloaded ldapsdk_19981123.tar.gz from mozilla.org and
> extracted the files from the tarball.  The build instructions
> say:
>
>         <set various environment variables>
>         cd mozilla
>         gmake -f directory/ldapsdk.mk build
>
> But this yields:
>
>         cd config ; gmake
>         gmake[1]: Entering directory '.../mozilla/config'
>         gmake[1]: *** No targets. Stop
>         gmake[1]: Leaving directory '.../mozilla/config'
>         gmake: *** [build] Error 2
>
> I suspect that a configuration step has been left out of the
> instructions; but it isn't clear exactly what that step should
> be.  The config directory does not contain a Makefile; but
> there is a Makefile.in.  Which implies that autoconf has been
> run; but there is no 'configure' script.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Pat