GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 514877
Gnome Display Manager will no longer compile with shadow
Last modified: 2008-02-08 05:39:09 UTC
Please describe the problem: GDM 2.20.3 fails to compile with the following error: verify-shadow.o: In function `gdm_verify_setup_user': verify-shadow.c:(.text+0x88): undefined reference to `gdm_debug' verify-shadow.c:(.text+0xd8): undefined reference to `gdm_debug' verify-shadow.o: In function `gdm_verify_user': verify-shadow.c:(.text+0x3b5): undefined reference to `gdm_debug' verify-shadow.c:(.text+0x463): undefined reference to `gdm_debug' verify-shadow.c:(.text+0x66c): undefined reference to `gdm_debug' verify-shadow.o:verify-shadow.c:(.text+0x738): more undefined references to `gdm_debug' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [gdm-binary] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gdm-2.20.3/daemon' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gdm-2.20.3' make: *** [all] Error 2 The last version of gdm to compile with shadow was 2.20.2. SlackWare 12.0 Kernel 2.6.21.5_smp / Xfce 4.4.2 / gtk+2 2.10.13 / Xorg 1.3.0.0 gnome-doc-utils 0.12.0 / libgnomecanvas 2.20.1.1 / gail 1.20.2 Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
This is a know bug that has been fixed in the 2.20 branch. There is a pretty simple patch to fix the problem in bug report #508275 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 508275 ***
Sorry about the duplicate post. I downloaded the patch provided in Bug 508275 and was able to successfully compile 2.20.3.