>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 23 12:43:46 2007
>>> You can't build a sandwich of SFW -> spec -> SFW -> spec without
>>> potentially breaking something. For example samba (in SFW) linked
>>> against gnutls (in JDS) by mistake and when JDS updated gnutls,
>>> it broke samba. If they were built together, this would not
>>> have happened.
>>
>> That sounds far more like an ARC contract that should have been there
>> but wasn't (or wasn't honoured), than a technical issue.
>
>The technical issue is that autoconf found the software was installed,
>so used it without waiting for the manual intervention of getting an
>ARC contract.
Actually no, though that's what I thought at first. The engineer
who enabled LDAP support added -ltls to LIBS before calling
configure, so it was deliberately asked for. That was just
removed as it was deemed not necessary after all (6522265,
which I just noticed wasn't listed in the putback though it
was indeed fixed). Apparently some older samba needed it
but not anymore.
But indeed that's a risk of using autoconf.
Mike
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