Re: [Ltib] gnome-vfs build failure

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for posting the information.  It may also be worth checking out
(with configure --help or looking in the file) whether there is a
--without-krb5 or similar.

Regards, Stuart

Eric Nelson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I recently had trouble building gnome-vfs from a Freescale release
> of LTIB and thought I'd share my work-around.
> 
> The problem appeared as a link failure in gnome-vfs-2.24.1/modules/
> with an error that "-Bsymbolic" isn't a supported link option by the
> cross-compiler.
> 
> What I found by looking at the configure logs was that the link
> flags were being leaked from the build machine into the cross-compilation
> by these lines in configure.in:
> 
> AC_PATH_PROG([KRB5_CONFIG], krb5-config, none, $PATH:/usr/kerberos/bin)
> if test "x$KRB5_CONFIG" != "xnone"; then
>    GSSAPI_LIBS="`${KRB5_CONFIG} --libs gssapi`"
>    GSSAPI_CFLAGS="`${KRB5_CONFIG} --cflags gssapi`"
> 
> In English, these lines will use the krb5-config to determine the compiler
> and linker flags needed to support the kerberos authentication libraries
> in a manner similar to pkg-config.
> 
> I suspect that a patch doctoring the PATH could prevent leakage from, but
> I don't need kerberos on my machine, so I solved the issue in an easier
> way:
>     ~/$ sudo apt-get remove krb5-multidev
> 
> I hope this helps someone else.
> 
> Eric
> 
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