[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#522526: Bug#522526: openldap: inconsistent libkrb53 dependencies

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:57 PM -0700 Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> 
wrote:

> Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:
>> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 07:50:55AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>>> libldap-2.4-2 2.4.15-1 has a dependency on libkrb53 on amd64, but none
>>> of the other builds have a libkrb53 dependency.  I suspect we're
>>> missing some flag to configure to either force or suppress a direct
>>> link to the Kerberos libraries and the result is therefore dependent on
>>> the build environment.
>
>> I guess this is --with-gssapi.
>
>> I'm not sure whether we want this on or off.  If no one has missed this
>> before now, I guess the generic SASL GSSAPI interface works just fine
>> and we should probably disable it?
>
> Yeah, I think that's right.  Isn't this the old stuff that only works with
> LDAP v2?  (Quanah?)

No, that was kbind, and it was purged from the source a while ago. 
--with-gssapi lets you use GSS-API in the libldap libraries without having 
cyrus-sasl present.  See:

<http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=5369>

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
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