Re: BUG #3927: configure --with-gssapi fails

From: Christian Ullrich <chris(at)chrullrich(dot)net>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #3927: configure --with-gssapi fails
Date: 2008-02-05 05:27:39
Message-ID: 47A7F3CB.8070109@chrullrich.net
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* Tom Lane wrote:

> "Christian Ullrich" <chris(at)chrullrich(dot)de> writes:

>> My mistake. I should have been using the heimdal port instead of the
>> ancient release in the base system.
>
> So, how ancient is it? Is there any reason we should try to make
> --with-gssapi work with it?

It's version 0.6.3, released in September 2004, according to the change
log. I don't know whether it would be worth it to make it work, but I
doubt it.

The FreeBSD port has been using the ports collection's heimdal instead
of the base system's at least since 8.0. The reason given in the port
is
<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-October/018809.html>.

> There are good reasons to encourage people to use gssapi only with
> recent versions of the underlying libraries, eg
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430983
> so I'm happy to treat this as not-worth-fixing if it really isn't.

It isn't for me.

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