Re: [Ltib] gnome-vfs build failure

[Eric Nelson]

On 10/30/2010 10:49 AM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> On 10/30/2010 01:26 AM, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > 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.
> Thanks for the tip Stuart.
>
> If I'm reading the configure.in file right, the krb5-config check isn't
> conditional on anything.
>
> It also appears that this has been around for a while:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2005-August/msg00021.html
>
> It seems that the proper thing to do would be for kerberos to use
> pkgconfig, where these problems have already been solved, but barring that,
> the attached patch to gnome-vfs should add support for the
> --disable-kerberos flag.
>

Sorry about that. I forgot to re-attach a cleaner patch.

> The spec file will also need an update to add the flag:
>
> -./configure --prefix=%{_prefix} --host=$CFGHOST --build=%{_build}
> --disable-openssl --disable-gtk-doc
> +./configure --prefix=%{_prefix} --host=$CFGHOST --build=%{_build}
> --disable-openssl --disable-gtk-doc --disable-kerberos
>
> > 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
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > LTIB home page: http://ltib.org
> > >
> > > Ltib mailing list
> > > address@hidden
> > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ltib

gnome-vfs-2.24.1-1288460579.patch
Description: Text Data