On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:47:17PM -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote: > On May 12, 2005, at 14:35, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > >So previous versions of kerberos included a static lib called libdb.a, > >that > >one of our developers used. > > > >I've noticed that in the 1.4 series this no longer exists... > > It's still in our tree, and linked into the programs that access the > Kerberos database directly, but we're no longer installing it. We > don't want to be in the business of supporting a general-purpose > database package. > > What we're (still) using is an old version of the Berkeley/Sleepycat > database package, with some bug fixes. (We can't update because of > licensing issues.) You might want to check the Sleepycat web site, > and/or look up the BDB sources in your favorite open-source OS > distribution. > > Or, you could tweak the Kerberos sources to install the db library on > your system ... but if you run into problems with db unrelated to its > use in the KDC and related programs we ship, we don't support it.
Erm, no, I mean it's not _built_, from the source directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED] krb5-1.4.1]$ find . -name 'libdb*' ./src/util/db2/libdb.exports ./OBJ/5.9/util/db2/libdb.so ./OBJ/5.9/util/db2/libdb.so.1.1 ./OBJ/5.9/util/db2/libdb.so.1 ./OBJ/5.9/lib/libdb.so.1.1 ./OBJ/5.9/lib/libdb.so ./OBJ/5.9/lib/libdb.so.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] krb5-1.4.1]$ find . -name '*.a' ./OBJ/5.9/util/ss/libss.a ./OBJ/5.9/util/pty/libpty.a ./OBJ/5.9/lib/apputils/libapputils.a ./OBJ/5.9/lib/libss.a ./OBJ/5.9/lib/libpty.a ./OBJ/5.9/lib/libapputils.a ./OBJ/5.9/appl/telnet/libtelnet/libtelnet.a [EMAIL PROTECTED] krb5-1.4.1]$ The shared version is there, the static version doesn't exist... -- Phil Dibowitz Systems Architect and Administrator Enterprise Infrastructure / ISD / USC UCC 174 - 213-821-5427
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