On Tuesday 11 November 2003 00:36, Dana Bourgeois wrote:
>Answered my own question once I had time to dig a little.
>
>You need to have the readline-devel rpm installed as well as the
> readline rpm.
>
>No one came forward about the QIC tape warning but I will know after
> I configure the disk 'tapes' and run an amdump if it's a problem.

If you don't actually have a QIC drive, they can be ignored.  Its an 
option to turn on when compiling a new kernel IIRC.

The problem finder isn't amdump per sei, but amcheck, which will scan 
the system and check the install, reporting warnings (which can be 
ignoored, and errors that will stop the amdump.  Errors must be 
fixed.

>
>Dana Bourgeois
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Dana Bourgeois
>> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 6:44 PM
>> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>> Subject: Problem configuring amanda before compiling
>>
>>
>> On RedHat, I didn't run into this.  Now I'm on SsSE8.1 and
>> the ./configure gives me a warning that I don't have a
>> terminal library for interactive amrecover nor do I have the
>> vtblc stuff needed for QIC tape support. Possibly I don't
>> care.  I'm going to use the file: driver with this
>> installation and the chg-multi tape changer.  I have the
>> readline package installed.
>>
>> Anyone know if I care about these warnings and if so, which
>> packages I need to tickle YaST to install for me?  Please
>> believe that I have already tried searching by package name
>> and installed several packages that looked pertinent but
>> didn't make these warnings go away, (ummm... I just reran
>> ./configure - I didn't see anything that would
>> remove/invalidate/unconfigure the previous ./configure step).
>>
>> Clues gratefully accepted.
>>
>>
>> Dana Bourgeois

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