Re: openssl and krb5 problems with cvs HEAD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Sean Chittenden
Subject Re: openssl and krb5 problems with cvs HEAD
Date
Msg-id 20030516185903.GJ42125@perrin.int.nxad.com
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In response to Re: openssl and krb5 problems with cvs HEAD  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
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> >>I also noticed that if I try to configure --with-openssl but *not* 
> >>--with-krb5=/usr/kerberos, I get configure errors.
> >
> >Is that a new problem?
> 
> Dunno -- this was the first time I tried that combo (due to the krb5
> related failure).

It's a namespace problem, iirc.  Where ever the problem actually lies,
FreeBSD works around with with the below fix to CPPFLAGS and it seems
to be the generally accepted "way" to deal with openssl.  I actually
find it surprising that we haven't run across this sooner.

> >>And indeed, if I define CPPFLAGS=-DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 explicitly all goes 
> >>fine.
> >
> >It's not clear to me that we should be mucking with OpenSSL's
> >configuration symbols.  I think filing this as an OpenSSL bug would be
> >a better choice.
> 
> OK. I'll see about contacting them.

-- 
Sean Chittenden


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