Re: libtirpc and nis

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:59:09 Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:14:44 Steve Dickson wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> the libtirpc package is self described as a "standalone package".  i
> >>> wonder how far that actually goes.  wrt NIS, it requires the
> >>> system C
> >>> library to provide NIS functionality or you get a build failure in
> >>> a few
> >>> files.  would be nice if libtirpc were usable without any NIS
> >>> baggage at
> >>> all.
> >>
> >> NIS used RPC procedures to communicate. As it stands today
> >> NIS is currently using the RPC procedures glibc. In the
> >> future there is a very good chance that NIS will start
> >> using the RPC procedures in libtirpc especially if
> >> IPV6 support is needed...
> >>
> >> So I'm a bit confused on what you mean by "NIS baggage"
> >> in the libtirpc package.
> >
> > you cannot build libtirpc on a system that doesnt provide NIS
> > functionality.
> > realistic RPC usage today is NFS related services only (i.e. a NFS
> > client
> > mounting a share on a NFS server).
>
> Mike, it would help if you could provide the build output so we can
> see exactly what's failing.

libtirpc does not provide rpcsvc/nis.h
-mike

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