Kai Ponte wrote:
On Monday 09 June 2008 09:39:22 am John E. Perry wrote:
Ok. Personally, I've never had to compile anything (that's one of the reasons I use suse -- almost everything imaginable is available already). Now, I'd like to use the Cisco vpn client to work from home on my employer's systems. Cisco has a linux version, which I have to compile.
Unfortunately, making an RPM for that is useless. For some stupid reason, the VPN client is tied into the kernel version. So, every time the kernel is updated the VPN client is borked and you have to reinstall.
Here are some instructions I wrote on using the VPN client in *nix.
Well, your compile went smoothly. I got the error "missing autoconf", with suggestions on how to generate the autoconf information. This seemed to work, but when I compiled again, I got a new set of errors, which I'm now trying to understand. ...Well, actually, I'll have to compile again, since I got interrupted and the messages disappeared from the terminal window before I got back to the machine. I've developed sofware under other unixes for many years, but never as a systems programmer. Doing system-level software is a different world! And I suppose linux is even more different?
The version I have is apparently adapted for my employer's environment, ...
The version is probably not specific, but may have your employers PCF file.
Yes, that looks right -- the source in the directory doesn't mention larc at all, but there are several .pcf's. There were also some executable binaries (cisco_cert_mgr, cvpnd, ipseclog, and vpnclient). I tried just jumping into vpnclient :-), but got no reaction. It just returned immediately to the command line. No messages of any sort. So I went into the compile process.
Again, I'm doubtful that checkinstall would work, since you use the Cisco installer.
I had gained that impression from subsequent messages in the thread. Thanks to all. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org