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I needed to build sudo today and when I started building it, I received this fatal error:

-bash-3.00# echo $PATH
/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/bin
-bash-3.00# make
for d in compat common  plugins/sudoers src include doc plugins/sample plugins/sample_group; \
    do (cd $d && exec make all) && continue; \
    exit $?; \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/oracle/sudo-1.8.4/compat'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/oracle/sudo-1.8.4/compat'
make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/oracle/sudo-1.8.4/common'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/oracle/sudo-1.8.4/common'
make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/oracle/sudo-1.8.4/plugins/sudoers'
/bin/bash ../../libtool --mode=link gcc -o visudo visudo.o goodpath.o find_path.o error.o  libparsesudoers.la ../../common/libcommon.la ../../compat/libreplace.la  -lsocket -lnsl
libtool: link: gcc -o visudo visudo.o goodpath.o find_path.o error.o  ./.libs/libparsesudoers.a ../../common/.libs/libcommon.a ../../compat/.libs/libreplace.a -lsocket -lnsl
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
libintl_textdomain                  visudo.o
libintl_bindtextdomain              visudo.o
libintl_dgettext                    visudo.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to visudo
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [visudo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/oracle/sudo-1.8.4/plugins/sudoers'
make: *** [all] Error 2
-bash-3.00# pwd
/export/home/oracle/sudo-1.8.4

After changing the path as follows, it worked:

-bash-3.00# export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/include:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

-bash-3.00# make

for d in compat common  plugins/sudoers src include doc plugins/sample plugins/sample_group; \

    do (cd $d && exec make all) && continue; \

    exit $?; \

done

-bash-3.00# make install

for d in compat common  plugins/sudoers src include doc; \

    do (cd $d && exec make pre-install) && continue; \

    exit $?; \

done

for d in compat common  plugins/sudoers src include doc; \

    do (cd $d && exec make install) && continue; \

    exit $?; \

done

/bin/bash ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/libexec \

    /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin \

    /etc /usr/local/share/doc/sudo \

    `echo /var/lib/sudo|sed 's,/[^/]*$,,'`

/bin/bash ../../install-sh -c -d -O 0 -G 0 -m 0700 /var/lib/sudo

if [ X".so" != X"" ]; then \

    /bin/bash ../../install-sh -c -b~ -O 0 -G 0 -m 0755 .libs/sudoers.so /usr/local/libexec; \

fi

/bin/bash ../../install-sh -c -b~ -O 0 -G 0 -M 0111 sudoreplay /usr/local/bin/sudoreplay

/bin/bash ../../install-sh -c -b~ -O 0 -G 0 -M 0111 visudo /usr/local/sbin/visudo

/bin/bash ../../install-sh -c -d -O 0 -G 0 -m 0750 \

    /etc/sudoers.d

test -r /etc/sudoers || \

    /bin/bash ../../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0440 \

        sudoers /etc/sudoers

#/bin/bash ../../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0555 ./sudoers2ldif /usr/local/share/doc/sudo

/bin/bash ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin \

    /usr/local/libexec

/bin/bash ../install-sh -c -b~ -O 0 -G 0 -M 04111 sudo /usr/local/bin/sudo

rm -f /usr/local/bin/sudoedit

ln /usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/sudoedit

if [ -f sesh ]; then /bin/bash ../install-sh -c -b~ -O 0 -G 0 -M 0111 sesh /usr/local/libexec/sesh; fi

if [ -f .libs/libsudo_noexec.so ]; then /bin/bash ../install-sh -c -b~ -O 0 -G 0 -m 0755 .libs/libsudo_noexec.so /usr/local/libexec/sudo_noexec.so; fi

/bin/bash ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/include

/bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 ./sudo_plugin.h /usr/local/include

/bin/bash ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/doc/sudo \

    /usr/local/man/man1m /usr/local/man/man4

mkdir /usr/local/man

mkdir /usr/local/man/man1m

mkdir /usr/local/man/man4

for f in ../ChangeLog ../README  ../NEWS ./HISTORY ./CONTRIBUTORS  ./LICENSE ./TROUBLESHOOTING ./UPGRADE  ./sample.*; do /bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 $f /usr/local/share/doc/sudo; done

#for f in ../README.LDAP ./schema.*; do /bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 $f /usr/local/share/doc/sudo; done

/bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 ./sudo.man /usr/local/man/man1m/sudo.1m

ln /usr/local/man/man1m/sudo.1m /usr/local/man/man1m/sudoedit.1m

/bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 ./sudo_plugin.man /usr/local/man/man1m/sudo_plugin.1m

/bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 ./sudoreplay.man /usr/local/man/man1m/sudoreplay.1m

/bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 ./visudo.man /usr/local/man/man1m/visudo.1m

/bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 ./sudoers.man /usr/local/man/man4/sudoers.4

#/bin/bash ../install-sh -c -O 0 -G 0 -m 0444 ./sudoers.ldap.man /usr/local/man/man4/sudoers.ldap.4

-bash-3.00# which sudo

/usr/local/bin/sudo

-bash-3.00# which visudo

/usr/local/sbin/visudo

-bash-3.00#