On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:18:45PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > 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)
I never said to use krb5-config. It was just a way to show that whatever you push upstream will have to change at some point in the future. -- Antoine
