Hi all

I'n trying to get amanda working on x86_64 SL51

- problem one, an old bug in the amanda rpm causing a segfault
  on a double-freed pointer, fixed by obtaining

    amanda-*-2.5.0p2-8.el5.x86_64.rpm

  and manually installing,

- problem two, we get backups OK on ext3 filesystems but
  failures on XFS filesystems, google suggests that if amanda
  is compiled on a system without xfsdump installed then the
  amanda will be built without xfs support.   I think that this has
  happened
  - question : can I find out if it has XFS support? I can't see a way

- problem three, OK, I'll rebuild it myself, grab the source rpm,
  rpm -i it into /usr/src, cd to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

     rpmbuild -bb amanda.spec

  result : configure.in:2588: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by
  frozen file is not supported,

  google says due to m4 being too old.

    m4 --versionGNU M4
    1.4.5

  this seems to be the newest SL5 m4 available.

Any ideas?

What baffles me is that, if the newest m4 in SL is unable to build the
amanda package, then how come the SL amanda rpms exist!  where they
compiled on another RH variant in some bizzare "cross distro compilation"
exercise?!

Any pointers would be gratefully received

Cheers

Jim
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