[arch-general] howto build shadow 4.1.5 with share libraries enabled?

[Baho Utot]

On 02/21/2012 12:24 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> All,
>
>   I am having trouble building the new shadow (4.1.5) from ABS so that 
> libshadow.so.0 is created and installed. I have tried modifying 
> lib/Makefile.am like was done in 4.1.4:
>
>   #Ugh, force this to build shared libraries, for god's sake
>   sed -i "s/noinst_LTLIBRARIES/lib_LTLIBRARIES/g" lib/Makefile.am
>
> But that produces no pkg/lib at all in the build directory.
>
>   I have also tried setting the --enable-share configure option, but 
> the build fails with that option set:
>
> libtool: link: gcc -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe 
> -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
> -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z -Wl,relro 
> -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -o login login.o login_nopam.o  
> ../libmisc/libmisc.a ../lib/.libs/libshadow.a -lcrypt -lpam -lpam_misc
> login.o: In function `get_failent_user':
> login.c:(.text+0x1a): undefined reference to `getdef_bool'
> login.o: In function `main':
> login.c:(.text.startup+0x4ec): undefined reference to `getdef_unum'
> login.c:(.text.startup+0x517): undefined reference to `getdef_unum'
> login.c:(.text.startup+0x52f): undefined reference to `getdef_unum'
> <snip>
>
>   I know /lib/libshadow.so.0 was dropped in the move from shadow 
> 4.1.4.3-5 > 4.1.5, but is it possible to build the new shadow and have 
> it create libshadow.so.0? If so, how? This might be basic, but 
> obviously I'm ignorant to the solution. Thanks.
>

try this

from ./configure --help

   --enable-shared[=PKGS]  build shared libraries [default=no]
   --enable-static[=PKGS]  build static libraries [default=yes]


so add

     --enable-shared

to your configure command