On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 22:02 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On 03. 02. 22 16:36, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > 
> > I've just tried to build python-gssapi with notes enabled after
> > krb5 was fixed 
> > and it builds fine.
> > 
> > See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-gssapi/pull-request/4

Nice!
Especially the auto build deps, which I tried to enable but was failing
for me, so I ended up reverting that change.


> It looks like it's not the first time that krb5-config causes issues
> because it picks up state from the build env:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997021
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204646
> https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8159
> 
> We had similar problems long ago with libpcap's own tool, before the
> project made available a pkg-config file, which is much simpler and
> nicer (and doesn't fall apart when cross-compiling). Is there any
> reason to keep using these specialized binaries over pkg-config these
> days? Or is it just a matter of doing the work to gradually switch
> over?

The latter, but it needs to happen in upstream and needs to take in
account that pkg-config is not available in all architectures, so it is
hard to sell, as it makes he code more complicate to preserve both
mechanism.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce
RHEL Crypto Team
Red Hat, Inc



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