Another common reason for failure, that causes link-time errors, is a problem in libtool that causes it to search for symbols in already-installed amanda libraries, instead of in the just-built ones. This problem is known to affect SunOS 4.1.3 and FreeBSD. You can usually work around it by specifying a different prefix when you configure the new version of Amanda. However, it may not work if the previous version of Amanda was installed in /usr/local and gcc searches this directory by default; in this case, you must either remove the old libraries (which you don't want to do, right? :-) or call configure with the flag --disable-libtool. In this case, Amanda won't create shared libraries, so binaries will be larger, but you may worry about that later.

You may also want to take a look at docs/SYSTEM.NOTES, as well as to the Amanda Patches Page http://www.amanda.org/patches.html for other known problems. If everything fails, you should read the manual, but since we don't have one yet, just post a help request to the amanda-users mailing list, showing the last few lines of the failed build.

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