[RFC] Switch on tdb2 API by default?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Sep 29 11:21:26 MDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 08:20 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 07:52:48AM -0700, Kai Blin wrote:
> > 
> > Note that as build systems go I tend to prefer waf to autoconf because I
> > know Python much better than m4. But I do get Volker's point that it's
> > not as portable as the autoconf build system.
> 
> The other issue is that (as I understand it) right now the waf
> build required the Heimdal libraries to be linked into the smbd
> fileserver. For US Government contracts this is prohibited as
> MIT kerberos is the only certified krb5 library set that can
> be used.

Has Apple been dropped from all US government contracts?  (Apple
maintains Heimdal these days, is the the kerberos lib on all current
MacOS X versions as I understand it).

Andrew Bartlett

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