Re: 8.3 GSS Issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 8.3 GSS Issues
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Msg-id 18658.1193332921@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 8.3 GSS Issues  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.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


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