Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> writes: > I can't ./configure --with-gssapi from git on ubuntu 14.04.3 because: > > configure: error: gssapi.h header file is required for GSSAPI > > If I download the distribution-specific 9.3 source with apt, I find > their secret sauce to make it work: > > ./debian/rules:LDFLAGS+= -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/lib/mit-krb5 > -L/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/mit-krb5 > > ./debian/rules:CFLAGS+= -fPIC -pie -I/usr/include/mit-krb5 > > > Usually the packagers' secret sauce is there to change the > installation locations and defaults and such, not to allow it to > configure and compile at all. It makes it a bit hard to test new code > if you can't compile it without a bunch of messing around. > > Is there something we can and should do to make this compile directly > out of git?
The preferred way to check for - and handle - GSSAPI/krb5 is with pkg-config. So, for instance, on my system: rharwood@thriss:~$ pkg-config --exists krb5-gssapi rharwood@thriss:~$ echo $? 0 rharwood@thriss:~$ pkg-config --libs krb5-gssapi -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mit-krb5 -lgssapi_krb5 rharwood@thriss:~$ pkg-config --cflags krb5-gssapi -isystem /usr/include/mit-krb5 -isystem /usr/include/mit-krb5 In the past, this was done using krb5-config, but this has become increasingly difficult to continue to make work (and krb5-config is not nice code to work with).
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