Greetings,

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 15:12 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > On 2021-Nov-16, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> Not against possibly changing that but I don’t get the point of
> including
> >> be-gssapi-common.h if it’s not enabled in the build and typically if
> GSSAPI
> >> is possible and the reason for including be-gssapi-common.h then there’s
> >> other things that need to be under a ifdef, again, as in auth.c
>
> > BTW, this is exactly why my first suggestion was to add an exclusion
> > rule to headerscheck so that be-gssapi-common.h is not verified by that
> > script.  After re-reading your response, that looks like a reasonable
> > answer too.
>
> I think adding #ifdef ENABLE_GSS as per your prior message is better.
> Headers have little business making assumptions about the context in
> which they're included --- which is exactly why headerscheck exists ---
> so I disagree with Stephen's argument.  In any case I am not in favor of
> making random exclusions from that script's testing.


I don’t feel all that strongly either way, so if you’d rather have it that
way then that’s fine.  Will still need the other ifdefs too anyway though,
but I guess it isn’t that big of a deal.

Thanks,

Stephen

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