[PATCH] build: add option to choose to build with or without JSON audit support

[Björn Baumbach]

On 05/02/2018 11:36 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-05-02 at 13:43 +0200, Björn Baumbach wrote:
>> I didn't change the behaviour. The default is still the auto-detection.
>> In my opinion this feature is an optional feature and I am fine with the
>> current default. 
> 
> Sure, but in retrospect I'm not.  This was missed when we first added
> the feature.  
> 
>> I would not like to set the default to True.
> 
> Why is that?  
> 
> A while back we realised that folks were getting builds missing
> features, so we stopped making krb5 and ldap automatic in this way,
> requiring an explicit --without-krb5, --without-ldap et al.  
> 
> Now that an explicit option is being added, I'm asking that is match
> the behaviour of our other 'optional' libraries.

In my opinion it's not needed to enable all available optional features
by default. There are some additional switches like the
--with-json-audit switch:

--with-gpgme
--with-dmapi
--with-fam
--with-libarchive
--with-regedit

But actually, it's not that important to me. I just like the 'auto'
default more than 'true', because I like to keep it small.

>> In which way would you like to update the man page? The condition "if
>> Samba is compiled against the jansson JSON library" is still correct here:
>>
>>   Authentication and authorization audit information is logged under
>>   the auth_audit, and if Samba is compiled against the jansson JSON
>>   library, a JSON representation is logged under auth_json_audit.
> 
> How about:
> 
> and unless Samba was compiled --without-json-audit, a JSON
> representation is logged under auth_json_audit. 

My thoughts were "If I compile with --without-json-audit, Samba will not
compiled against the jansson libary as well". But yes, you're right -
mention the --without-json-audit switch is more clear.
Please find a patch attached.

Best regards,
Björn

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