Re: longfin missing gssapi_ext.h - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: longfin missing gssapi_ext.h
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Msg-id ZDDSriHdl6+LwVl6@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: longfin missing gssapi_ext.h  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> >> It's whatever Apple is shipping, or was shipping last year or so.
>
> > Sadly they've not been maintaining the Kerberos libraries at all on
> > their systems.
>
> Indeed :-(.  I wouldn't be surprised if there are security issues in
> their version.  Perhaps what we really ought to do is refuse to build
> with their version --- but if so, we need some clearer error message
> about it.

The attached should (I believe?) at least add the needed check for
gssapi_ext.h which will cause builds to fail and complain about the
header being missing from their installation.

I'm certainly open to ideas about how to provide a better error message,
particularly on OSX systems which have an ancient version, to make it
clear that people need to install an updated version.  I don't have an
OSX system at hand though.

Should I push this to at least address the header check ... ?

Thanks,

Stephen

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