Re: Allow building libtirpc directly against GSSAPI

[Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 15:25 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 10:41 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > Libgssglue is not really useful anymore, it is a sort of middleman that
> > wraps the actual GSSAPI that is already pluggable/extensible via shared
> > modules.
> > 
> > In particular libgssglue interferes with the workings of gss-proxy in my
> > case.
> > 
> > The attached patch makes building against libgssglue optional and
> > defaults to not build against libgssglue and instead builds directly
> > against the native GSSAPI.
> > 
> > ./configure --enable-gss
> > will now build against GSSAPI
> > 
> > ./configure --enable-gss --with-gssglue
> > will keep building against libgssglue in case someone still needs it for
> > whatever reason.
> > 
> > Simo.
> > 
> 
> Won't that be a backward compatibility issue?

What are you worried about exactly ? Is there a use case we should know
about ?

Simo.

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