Re: GNU SASL test failures

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Simon!

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> I just realized that the hydra build is using GNU GSS from the build
> system, not the latest from git.  Do you know which version of GNU GSS
> is installed on that system?

GSS 1.0.0.  (You can see it by going to a build page, e.g.,
<http://hydra.nixos.org/build/413115>, then clicking on the
“Information” tab, “build-time dependencies”, “list”, and searching for
‘gss’.)

> And more importantly: do you know whether the system libgss was built
> with support for GNU Shishi or not?

Indeed, it was built without Shishi support (which can also be seen by
following the procedure above and looking at the build log of GSS.)

I was about to change it in Nixpkgs, but got that:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
./krb5context: error while loading shared libraries: libshishi.so.0: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory
FAIL: krb5context
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

which should be fixed by adding -lshishi for ‘krb5context’ (libtool will
add Shishi to its RUNPATH.)

> It may be that the installed GNU GSS was built without Shishi, then the
> Kerberos V5 test would not work.  This would be a real bug in the GNU
> SASL self test: it should gracefully fail in that case.
>
> I have improved error messages a bit to see if this is really the case.

Nice!

Thanks,
Ludo’.