#42 configure ignores SMBCLIENT_LIBS-variable

[Mikhail T.]

The configure-script's test for -lsmbclient ignores the SMBCLIENT_LIBS variable. For example, on my machine Samba's libraries are under /opt/lib/samba4. Yet, running:

env SMBCLIENT_LIBS="-L/opt/lib/samba4" ./configure

yields:

...
checking for FUSE... yes
checking for GLIB... yes
checking for LIBSECRET... yes
checking for SMBCLIENT... yes
checking for smbc_setOptionUseCCache in -lsmbclient... no
Error!!! libsmbclient >= 3.5 required.

Because the value of the environment variable is not placed on the test-linker's command-line. The work-around is to add the flag to the LDFLAGS instead.

[Mikhail Kshevetskiy]

You should use pkg-config for this task.

Try something like
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/lib/samba4/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH ./configure

[Mikhail T.]

There is no /opt/lib/samba4/lib/pkgconfig on my system, but invoking pkgconf --libs smbclient outputs the correct information without any special hacks.

At any rate, the SMBCLIENT_LIBS should work to overwrite whatever pkgconf outputs, should not it? And it does not -- not quite...

[Mikhail Kshevetskiy]

hm, you have no smbclient.pc file et all?