[PROPOSAL] Require builtin or system krb5 libs

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Jan 5 05:36:56 MST 2012


On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 13:18 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:08:08PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > Why not?  We have a large amount of code and complexity created by
> > trying (and failing, see 3.5.11, recent master) to support building
> > without Kerberos.  As nobody noticed until now, clearly our users accept
> > the need for a Kerberos library to build Samba.
> 
> Recently I fixed a master build without Kerberos. See
> 48804e4. At least the compile went fine..

And I do thank you for doing that.  

My point here is to avoid us needing to keep doing this in future, and
to remove some small part of Samba's complexity that having optional
kerberos brings.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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