Other things to drop (was: Re: Drop NIS support)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 09:12 -0700, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical
wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 05:10:15PM +0100, Andreas Schneider via
> samba-technical wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > could we drop NIS support for Samba 4.15?
> > 
> > This means getting rid of lib/replace/system/nis.h and yp_*() ...
> 
> +1 from me. Let's see if anyone else is still
> using it.
> 
> So the current list for 4.15 will be Tru64, HPUX, NIS.
> 
> Any more for any more ?

How about some more of our compilation options?

Could we merge --with-dnsupdate into --with-ads?

Does --without-iconv ever work or make sense (it builds)?
(or in the alternate does anything but UTF-8 still make sense?)

Is --with-fake-kaserver still relevant?

Is there a better way to do --disable-fault-handling
than having a configure options?

On one we can probably agree with, --with-ntvfs-fileserver should just
be a side-effect of other options like --enable-selftest, it should not
be an option on it's own. 

commit b990279304b5e2b2ee0f64480cb09eda33f76beb
Author: Ira Cooper <ira at samba.org>
Date:   Wed Mar 14 12:56:02 2012 -0400

    util: Add --disable-fault-handling.
    
    On some platforms you can not debug coredumps after the default
signal handler
    gets done dumping core.  This allows waf to have an option to
disable our
    default signal handler.

"Just asking questions" ;-)

But more seriously, I would like us to have less ./configure options so
we have less build profiles that we promise work, which in turn means
less CI resources to prove them (they are $$$) and more chance that
what we ship works for our users.

Andrew Bartlett

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