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Date:      Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:07:20 +1100
From:      John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au>
To:        John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, George Mamalakis <mamalos@eng.auth.gr>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Subject:   8.0 Dynamic Linker Broken? (Was: [PATCH] SASL problems with spnego on 8.0-BETA4)
Message-ID:  <20091004230720.GA1086@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <200910020824.15488.john@baldwin.cx>
References:  <4AB27FB6.4010806@eng.auth.gr> <20090921222241.GF1001@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <20091002081319.GN37304@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <200910020824.15488.john@baldwin.cx>

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On Fri, 02 Oct 2009, 08:24 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 02 October 2009 4:13:19 am John Marshall wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 08:22 +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, 11:26 -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > >
  [snip]
> > > >
> > > > Now, hopefully someone who understands enough about dynamic linking=
 will
> > > > know if this is the correct fix for 8.0? (I'm going on a couple of =
weeks
> > > > vacation at the end of this week, so I won't be around to commit=20
> > > > anything
> > > > and don't understand it well enough to know if this is the correct =
way
> > > > to fix it.)
> > > >=20
> > > > So, hopefully someone else can pick this one up?
> > > >=20
  [snip]
> > >=20
> > > I have submitted a patch to the FreeBSD Makefile which patches the
> > > vendor-supplied template for krb5-config.  I should be grateful if df=
r@
> > > or another src committer would please review this with a view to
> > > obtaining re@ approval to commit it before 8.0-RC2.
> > >=20
> > > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D139037>;
> >=20
> > Any src committers able to help with this?
>=20
> Hmmm, I thought that libgssapi was supposed to use dlopen to load the pro=
per=20
> back-end libraries using /etc/gss/mech rather than having applications=20
> directly link against them.

OK, so if my proposed solution is, in fact, only masking a symptom of a
broken dynamic linker, would somebody who understands this stuff please
weigh in on this with some debugging suggestions or with a patch to
address this problem?

I'm able to help with testing but I'm not a programmer and know nothing
about the FreeBSD dynamic linker.

Thanks.

--=20
John Marshall

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