On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:26:57AM -0400, Patrick Hawley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got three workstations I'm trying to install and configure amanda 
> for.
> My tape host is a Solaris 8 machine and I have two clients with Solaris 8 
> on one and Solaris 9 on the other.
> I was able to build and install the tape host and the one Solaris 8 client 
> with very little trouble.
> I can't however get the build to succeed on the Solaris 9 client.
> The configure succeeds but the make fails with the following message.
> 
> libtool: link: `alloc.lo' is not a valid libtool object
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `libamanda.la'
> Current working directory /usr/local/etc/amanda/amanda-2.4.4p4/common-src
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> 
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
> 
> I've been using Sun's BigAdmin article, "Performing Centralized Concurrent 
> Backups with Amanda" as guidance up to this point.
> 

A decent article from 2003, based on 2.4.4.
Getting a little long-in-the-tooth now.
But aren't they all :(

I presume you are using gcc.  Are you pointing $CC to the proper location
for gcc and do you have /usr/bin/ccs/bin earlier in your PATH than the
gcc bin directory?  Otherwise you may be using some gnu tools where
for amanda the unix make, as, ld, etc are prefered.

Also, have you run the "fix headers" script from the gcc installation?

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