RE: CVS+GSSAPI (Kerb5)

[Jonah Tsai]

> In trying to build CVS with GSSAPI (Kerberos 5) support I am running
> into a problem where the ./configure step cannot find the
> acx_gssapi_cv_gss_c_nt_hostbased_service. Does anyone know what I need
> to do to get past this? 
> Here's a dump of my ./configure and the error I get when I try to make.
> I am using 
> ./configure -cache-file=cvs.build -prefix=/usr -enable-client
> -enable-server - enable-encryption - with-gssapi -without-krb4
[snip]

> checking for GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE... ./configure:
> acx_gssapi_cv_gss_c_nt_hostbased_service: not found
> ./configure: acx_gssapi_cv_gss_c_nt_hostbased_service: not found
> no
[snip]

> client.o: In function `connect_to_gserver':
> /home/root/projects/cvs/ccvs/src/client.c:4246: undefined reference to
> `GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE'
You forgot to  mention which OS, and which implementation of KRB5 you 
are using.

This means the "configure" script is not able to find the symbol 
GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE. In MIT's KRB5, this is
#define GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE gss_nt_service_name
The configure script will guess it correctly for MIT's KRB5.

If the KRB5 and the platform combination you have just can't be 
"guessed" correctly by the configure script, you can just go do an "nm 
libgssapi_krb5.a" | grep service_name" and see if you can find the 
symbol in your KRB5 library. If the symbol can be found, then, you put 
#define GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE <the symbol found> at the end of the 
generated config.h.

This should allow you to compile it correctly without having to go 
through the patch process (I still have no idea how the patch process in 
the CVS project works), or mugging around the very complicated configure 
script.



Jonah Tsai