Make of PAM-PGSQL doesn't work

[Patrick Nelson]

Patrick Nelson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I trying to build PAM-PgSQL (from 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-pgsql) on an up to date FC5 
> system.  This app has a dependency on 2 apps:
>
> mhash-devel 0.9.1-0.fdr.1
> postgresql-devel 8.1.4-1.fc5.1
>
> which I have installed from RPMs with their parent apps (mhash and all 
> postgresql-*) that I installed with yum.
>
> It is a .bz tar file that you have to do a:
>
>  ./configure
>  make
>  make install
>
> The configure works fine but when I run make I get the following error:
>
>  pam_get_service.c: In function 'pam_get_service'
>  pam_get_service.c10: error: 'NULL' undeclared (first use in this 
> function)
>  pam_get_service.c10: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported 
> only once
>  pam_get_service.c10: error: for each function it appears in.)
>  make: *** [pam_get_service.o] Error 1
>
> Unfortunately I cant get much of a response from the developer, so I 
> thought I would ask the smart people here.  I'm not a big programmer 
> here either but I can follow directions.  Anyone know what I would 
> have to do to get this working?
>
> pnelson
>
OK I was looking at the use of NULL in all .c files in this app and I 
found that there was a header line missing from pam_get_service.c file:

#include <stdlib.h>

I put this in pam_get_service.c and did a 'make clean' and then the:

 ./configure
 make

And now it built up without any errors.