[Samba] samba-4.3.6 and talloc-2.1.6

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 15:32 +0000, Rowland penny wrote:
> On 12/03/16 15:15, Andrey Cherepanov wrote:
> > 12.03.2016 17:57, Rowland penny пишет:
> > > > What policy of using new version of libraries for stable
> > > > version of
> > > > Samba? Can I fix domain provision with talloc-2.1.6 for samba
> > > > -4.3.6?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Can I ask why you are building talloc separately ? If you build
> > > Samba
> > > normally, it will be built for you. I am no expert here, but I
> > > think
> > > Samba relies on the builtin version of Samba.
> > It's good practice for shared libraries:
> 
> Who says so ?
> 
> > $ apt-cache whatdepends libtalloc | grep '^  [a-z]' | wc -l
> > 57
> > 
> > It is used for samba and samba-DC, sssd and openchange, cifs-utils
> > and 
> > sogo-openchange-backend
> > 
> 
> Yes and all of them will work with the version compiled during the
> Samba 
> compile, unlike your self standalone compiled version seems to.

When combining Samba with other utilities that also use talloc, then
having them all link against a system talloc is generally the path of
least trouble.  The issue here is that we broke backwards
compatibility, but didn't realise it.

Andrew Bartlett

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