Re: [Perlgssapi-developer] [rt.cpan.org #32788] Enhancement to use OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 native gss library

[Leif J. <le...@it...>]

Achim Grolms wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Markus Moeller via RT wrote:
>   
>> Tue Jan 29 16:55:54 2008: Request 32788 was acted upon.
>> Transaction: Ticket created by hu...@mo...
>>        Queue: GSSAPI
>>      Subject: Enhancement to use OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 native gss library
>>    Broken in: (no value)
>>     Severity: (no value)
>>        Owner: Nobody
>>   Requestors: hu...@mo...
>>       Status: new
>>  Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32788 >
>>
>>
>> On the latest Solaris 10 /  OpenSolairs builds exists a krb5-config file
>> but unfortunatly it does not work with gssapi as argument. Can Makefile.PL
>> check for this case and set the libs to -L/usr/lib -R/usr/lib -lgss
>>     
>
> If you run 
>
> perl Makefile.PL --help
>
> you get more options you can pass to the Makefile.PL command.
> (for includefiles and library-paths).
>
> Does this work and solve your problem?
>
> I have no Solaris 10/OpenSolaris available for testing,
> what are the conditions I can use to check for 
> "Makefile.PL runs on Solaris 10/OpenSolaris"?
>
> Why is there a need to define 'gss_nt_service_name'
> if 'GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE' is available?
>
> 'gss_nt_service_name' is never used in GSSAPI.pm,
> I don't understand why there ist a need to define it?
>
>   
I don't remember exactly but I think gss_nt_service_name is an MITism
and I know that Solaris kerberos is essentially MIT kerberos. I think you
may need the definition to be compatible with older versions of MIT krb.

    Cheers Leif
> Thank you,
> Achim
>
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