Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 10:38:57 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should libgssapi be hidden behind the MK_KERBEROS knob? Message-ID: <20071208163857.GC91919@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <4759DC08.9070600@FreeBSD.org> References: <4759DC08.9070600@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:49:28PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> If there is a better list for this, don't hesitate to let me know.
>=20
> I use WITHOUT_KERBEROS=3Dtrue in /etc/{make|src}.conf, since I don't
> need or use it. However, this leads to a problem with building the
> kdelibs3 port. The configure script looks for the presence of
> libgssapi and the associated headers, and takes that to mean that
> kerberos is available, and sets things up accordingly. This causes
> the build to fail when it tries to actually link something to a
> kerberos library.
>=20
> I realize that GSS can be used for other things besides kerberos, but
> are we really losing anything by hiding them both under the same knob?
> If the answer to that is yes, is there any objection to a WITHOUT_GSS
> knob?
We wouldn't loose anything today, but a without GSS knob makes more
sense to me. There's at least one other GSS system in fairly wide use
in the high performance computing world today.
-- Brooks
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