On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > 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.
Yeah, but in that case the code dlopen's all the libs, and i dont really see a way to use krb5-config in that scheme (calling it at runtime via popen and iterate on the output ? gross) Landry
