Re: 8.3 GSS Issues

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:51:04PM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>> There's no way to specify the gssapi library to use. I have three on
>> my main development Sun: MIT, Sun, and Heimdal. I might have more
>> than one version of one of those three at some times. Of course
>> there's no way to specify which kerberos 5 library or openssl library
>> you want either, so consider this a feature request for future
>> development.

> Yeah, that's something that can be done for 8.4, certainly not something we
> can put in now. But I'll be happy to see a patch once we open the tree for
> 8.4 :-)

Isn't this something you do by specifying include and link search paths
to configure? The above argument could be made for *any* library we
use, and I surely do not want to put a single-purpose switch for each
library into configure.

regards, tom lane