Re: PPTP VPN plugin resurrected from the dead

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:05 +0200, Bjorge Solli wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > And committed to SVN trunk.  Try it out, file bugs, send email to the
> > list whne stuff doesn't work.  I tested briefly against a Windows 2000
> > Server install and it seemed to go OK.
> 
> I am trying to compile the pptp vpn-daemon on Fedora 8. It complains
> that dbus-glib is version 0.73 and it needs at least 0.74. Does this
> mean it won't work on standard Fedora 8? Upgrading dbus sounds like a
> lot of work (though I haven't tried yet).

Nope, but I also finally built packages in koji on Friday.  Sorry for
the long wait; but pptp is now completely undead in Fedora package land.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=60842

Dan

> This is how I did it:
> - svn co the files
> - install gnome-common macros2
> - go to svn/NetworkManager/vpn-daemons/pptp
> - run ./autogen.sh
> - run ./configure (this is where it stops)
> 
> I hoped I could use the rpms from koji for the rest of NM, and just
> "patch it" with pptp vpn-daemon. Or would it be better to compile the
> whole shabang?
> 
> Regards
> Bjørge