Re: 8.3 GSS Issues
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-10-25T17:22:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:51:04PM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote: >> There's no way to specify the gssapi library to use. I have three on >> my main development Sun: MIT, Sun, and Heimdal. I might have more >> than one version of one of those three at some times. Of course >> there's no way to specify which kerberos 5 library or openssl library >> you want either, so consider this a feature request for future >> development. > Yeah, that's something that can be done for 8.4, certainly not something we > can put in now. But I'll be happy to see a patch once we open the tree for > 8.4 :-) Isn't this something you do by specifying include and link search paths to configure? The above argument could be made for *any* library we use, and I surely do not want to put a single-purpose switch for each library into configure. regards, tom lane