Re: Windows: openssl & gssapi dislike each other

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

Cc: Imran Zaheer <imran.zhir@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-01-24T20:07:42Z

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Move GSSAPI includes into its own header
- e92c0632c147 18.0 landed
Tighten test_predtest's input checks, and improve error messages.
- 00ac25a3c365 17.0 cited
Collation documentation fixes.
- 8ba34c698d19 17.0 cited
contrib/sslinfo needs a fix too to make hamerkop happy.
- 568620dfd691 15.0 cited
Second attempt to silence SSL compile failures on hamerkop.
- 1241fcbd7e64 15.0 cited

On 2025-01-22 We 4:25 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 09:17, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>
>     > On 10 Jul 2024, at 19:06, Imran Zaheer <imran.zhir@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     (Reviving an old thread to give them a chance to finish before v18)
>
>     > For now maybe we can do the future proofing for gssapi & openssl
>     includes
>     > and do testing if openssl clashes with some other lib too.
>
>     Where did this end up, is compilation on Windows with OpenSSL and
>     GSSAPI still
>     an issue?  AFAICT the fixes from this thread are yet to be applied
>     and it would
>     be nice to have that done before v18 if still needed.
>
>
> I kid you not, 20 seconds ago I hit send on a message on a pgAdmin 
> thread where I was complaining this bug was outstanding to someone 
> asking about GSSAPI support on Windows. That's quite the coincidence.
>
>  Anyway, no fix was committed as far as I know. I would suggest it 
> should be back-patched as well.
>
>

I'm quite partial to the approach suggested upthread by Andres (a 
separate pg_gssapi.h file). If there's agreement on that I'm prepared to 
go and make it happen, unless Daniel beats me to it. Backpatching also 
seems reasonable.


cheers


andrew



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