On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:41:39PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:32:52AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > > Instead of patching Firefox, would it be better to change the way > > > > OpenBSD links the Heimdal libraries to make the interdependent libraries > > > > implicit? > > > > > > I think there was a reason for having it done this way when kerberos was > > > updated, and iirc it lead to having quite a bunch of patches around. > > > Robert, Antoine ? > > > > Nothing to do with Kerberos, OpenBSD does not register interdependant > > libraries in base. We do it in ports but not base. > > Right, thx for the reminder. I've commited the fix to our port, and will > ensure it's got the proper #ifdef dance + justification to be merged upstream.
The problem is that you cannot trust the libs interdependency not to change at some point. That is the reason I patched all our ports to use krb5-config; so that we do not need to hardcode the libs in each port that uses kerberos. Other OSes don't have this issue obviously. -- Antoine
