[RFC] Switch on tdb2 API by default?

simo idra at samba.org
Thu Sep 29 11:44:46 MDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 10:21 -0700, Andrew Bartlett wrote: 
> 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).

Apple basically dropped any remaining server platform afaik.

Simo.

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