Greetings,
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> >> Should we document somewhere that we consider that unsupported?
> >> Trying it here, I see a bunch of "deprecation" warnings during
> >> the build, but it does build --- which might lead people to expect
> >> that it'd work.
>
> > There had been discussion on another thread about trying to figure out a
> > way to detect the OSX GSSAPI library and refuse to build with GSSAPI
> > support when that's what we'd be building against. I didn't see anyone
> > post a patch though and I haven't got an OSX box to play with myself
> > easily at hand.
>
> Just poking around, it looks like something along this line would work:
>
> #ifdef GSSKRB_APPLE_DEPRECATED
> #error "Postgres doesn't work with the macOS GSSAPI library, please use XXX instead."
> #endif
>
> (in any suitable spot after #including gssapi.h)
>
> Now, this is testing the *headers* not the actual *library*, which in
> some sense is not the right thing. But it's probably close enough for
> the purpose.
Sounds good to me.
Thanks,
Stephen
