source code doesn't compile

[Ruben Safir]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:37:12AM +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 
> > On 12/01/2022 08:20 Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > On 1/12/22 01:06, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > > I tried to reproduce this issue on debian stretch, but it worked just fine. I suspect your distro is just too old for 2.3. Can you see if 2.2.36 works better?
> > 
> > 
> > something in the autoconf config caused it to try to put auth and the
> > auth directory in the same local.. that should narrow the issue to a
> > couple of lines of config code.  I am not an expert in autoconf
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> There is limited amount of interest in trying to fix old operating systems, unfortunately. Especially as there is no such thing as "couple of lines of autoconf code".
> 
> Aki

That is perfectly understandable. 

However, there should be interest that ./configure doesn't contruct a make file
which steps on itself which is a condition that should never happen.
Autoconf tools are supposed to handle these problems.  It should compile
from Slackware to Gentoo to Red Hat Enterprise.  At the end of the day,
they are all posix compliant systems.

make install tried to first make a file
called auth and then tries to use the same 
location on the file system to
make a directory.  That is a fixable bug.

Thanks

Reuvian

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