Re: [Perlgssapi-users] Building perlgssapi against other gssapi impls

[Achim G. <ac...@gr...>]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 05:11, you wrote:
> Achim Grolms wrote:
> >The other point - how can I make the Makefile.PL
> >to set the DHEIMDAL flag
> >based on the output of your krb5-config command?
>
> That is a good question.. I think we will try to make our krb5-config
> emit '(Heimdal)' as part of the version string.

Something like "... derived from Heimdal" will work?

> Or, perhaps you could provide a switch to Makefile.PL that would
> override the heimdal detection.
>
> However, it seems to me that the package currently assumes the
> extensions are there, falling back to vanilla gssapi *only* if the word
> Heimdal is detected.. Perhaps the logic should be reversed; i.e. build
> conservatively, unless the extensions are detected? By extensions I mean
> the deprecated/non-standard GSSAPI functions like oid_to_str.

At the moment most of the users I get mail from are using MIT Kerberos.
The Heimdal support is new in GSSAPI.pm
I don't want to repair things that are not broken, but you are right,
if in future the standard behaviour becomes the default I have
to change that and make a reverse detection.

Does that work for you?

Thank you,
Achim