Building OpenOffice.org 1.9.104.src for slackware

[thuffy]

hi!
Im building the OpenOffice.org from source in org to feet into my distro Slackware 10.1.
after I send a command ./configure the error came out in the last part. And the error is ....

checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking cups/cups.h usability... yes
checking cups/cups.h presence... yes
checking for cups/cups.h... yes
checking security/pam_appl.h usability... no
checking security/pam_appl.h presence... no
checking for security/pam_appl.h... no
configure: error: pam_appl.h could not be found. libpam-dev or pam-devel missing?

Kindly help me to solve this problem. What is the meaning of this?

Thanks and I looking forward for your help

[kern]

why dont you just download the binary RPM tarball and convert it with rpm2tgz. it works great.

and slackware doesn't use PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), because pats not a great fan of it apparently

hope this helps.

[Monkeh]

TRy ./configure --help. There may be an option to remove PAM support from the compile.