NO_KERBEROS (was Re: cvs commit: src/kerberos5 ...)

Mark Murray mark at grondar.org
Mon May 5 11:13:34 PDT 2003


"Jacques A. Vidrine" writes:
> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 12:58:44AM -0700, Mark Murray wrote:
> >   Log:
> >   Turn MAKE_KERBEROS5 into NO_KERBEROS by negating the logic. Some extra
> >   cleanups were necessary in release/Makefile, and the tinderbox code
> >   was syntax checked, not run checked.
> 
> Hi, Mark!

Yo!

> Thanks so much!  This takes care of many issues which were bothering
> me.  First and foremost, now we no longer have the bad situation where
> the Kerberos bits were installed by default, but they were not rebuilt
> by default during `make world'.  This was leaving stale Kerberos
> libraries and utilities in many situations.  Now the Kerberos bits are
> treated more like the other (in theory) `optional' components of `make
> world'.

That's why I like it. :-)

> Binary patches (such as those occassionally issued by the SO team and
> those by 3rd parties such as Colin's updater) will be more widely
> applicable now.
> 
> This should cut make release times a wee bit, since we don't have to
> build telnet and ssh quite so many times.  (Now if we could only
> dispatch the `crypto' distribution :-)

There are some build-logic simplifications that can be done, but I
don't wish to mess with those till 5.1 is out of the door.

> Finally, this brings us in line with the other BSDs (NetBSD, OpenBSD,
> and Mac OS X), which all have Kerberos built-in.

Excellent!

M
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