Re: [Perlgssapi-developer] http://search.cpan.org/~agrolms/GSSAPI-0.14/GSSAPI.pm

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

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Merijn Broeren wrote:
> Quoting Achim Grolms (per...@gr...):
>> I have uploaded 0.14.
>>
>> I think that this is a first "make footprint" release,
>> and more releases have to follow
>>
> Great, thanks again for picking this up. 
> 
> I've got an issue with the build process now. I like very much that I
> can pass an argument to Makefile.PL which is used to find the kerberos
> libraries. But for me this is right now not working, for two reasons.
> One to do with MakeMaker and one with our subtle setup. 
> 
> Here is the output of Makefile.PL right now:
> 
>    Searching krb5-config
>   command...//ms/dist/kerberos/PROJ/mitkrb5/1.4-lib-prod/bin/krb5-config
>    using GSSAPI implementation Kerberos 5 release 1.4.3
>   
>    Using libconfiguration
>   -L/ms/dist/kerberos/PROJ/mitkrb5/1.4.3-ms0/.exec/ia32.linux.2.4.lib6/lib
>   -Wl,-rpath
>   -Wl,/ms/dist/kerberos/PROJ/mitkrb5/1.4.3-ms0/.exec/ia32.linux.2.4.lib6/lib
>   -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lkrb5support -lcom_err -lresolv
>   
>   Setting MIT defines
>   
>    using own defines 
>   
>   Checking if your kit is complete...
>   Looks good
>   Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '-Wl,-rpath'
>   Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '-Wl,/ms/dist/kerberos/PROJ/mitkrb5/1.4.3-ms0/.exec/ia32.linux.2.4.lib6/lib'
>   Writing Makefile for GSSAPI
> 
> Which seems quite reasonable. Except that I want to use 1.4-lib-prod,
> which is a symlink to the actual version 1.4.3-ms0. This symlink can be
> changed at a later date, so I don't have to recompile the perl GSSAPI
> module if I want to address a bug for instance. The krb5-config is too
> specific (I could change that ofcourse). This is debatable and I can
> agree it is just my problem to deal with. 
> 
> The second problem is more of an issue, the ignoring if the -Wl
> arguments. These are needed at link time, otherwise I don't get a proper
> runpath. I can set these using LDDLFLAGS as well as LIBS in
> WriteMakefile. 
> 
> So I propose a mechanism that allows me (and probably other control
> freaks) to set the LIBS, INC and LDDLFLAGS directly. See attached patch. 
> Any objections? 

I think it is a good ide although as a person who also does his own
software packaging I should warn you that second-guessing the linker
that way is a loaded gun pointed at your foot. But you already know
that :-)

I say go ahead!

	MVH leifj
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