[issue32007] nis module fails to build against glibc-2.26

Matej Cepl added the comment: > - I agree with Benjamin, let's deprecate the NIS module. NIS/YP functionality > has been replaced by NSS a long time ago. Agree. a) who will separate its functionality into separate module for PyPI, b) who start a thread on python-devel? -- _

[issue32007] nis module fails to build against glibc-2.26

Matej Cepl added the comment: It seems to be even more weird. Even with installed libnsl-devel (libnsl-devel-1.2.0-2.5.x86_64 on openSUSE/Tumbleweed) I get this in config.log: checking for t_open in -lnsl... no and truly, when grepping for t_open in /usr/include/rpc* I get nothing.

[issue32007] nis module fails to build against glibc-2.26

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[issue32007] nis module fails to build against glibc-2.26

Christian Heimes added the comment: #32521 is a duplicate of this issue. I didn't notice this issue when I created a fix. - I agree with Benjamin, let's deprecate the NIS module. NIS/YP functionality has been replaced by NSS a long time ago. - We have no infrastructure to use pkg-config from

[issue32007] nis module fails to build against glibc-2.26

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Rather than investing any effort in nis, we should probably just deprecate and eventually remove it. (If glibc is actually getting rid of something, you know must be very very deprecated.) -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson _

[issue32007] nis module fails to build against glibc-2.26

New submission from Mike Gilbert : The nis extension module fails to build against glibc-2.26 with the "obsolete-rpc" option disabled. Downstream bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/631488 glibc-2.26 release notes: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-08/msg00010.html The nis module is