Re: GSS installed header in include/gss/api.h instead of gssapi.h

[Markus Mazurczak]

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Hi Simon,

thanks for your answer. I think it is an good idea to implement the
compat directory and make it retrievable via pkg-config.

As a workaround i just created a file /usr/local/gssapi.h which does
nothing but including gss.h.

Regards,

Markus

Simon Josefsson schrieb:
> Markus Mazurczak <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> configure: error: gssapi.h header file is required for GSSAPI
>>
>> libgss is available:
>>
>> ldconfig -v | grep gss
>>         libgss.so.1 -> libgss.so.1.1.0
>>
>> but there is no gssapi.h header installed. Instead the following headers
>> were installed under /usr/local/include/gss:
>>
>> - api.h
>> - ext.h
>>
>> Did i do something wrong during compiling GSS or is there something i
>> forgot?
>> I dont understand why postgresql need gssapi.h but gss just installed me
>> the above mentioned headers. Is it an gss or postgres failure?
> 
> Hi Markus.  Thanks for your interest.  The problem is that postgresql
> assumes the GSS-API header file is called 'gssapi.h', but in GNU GSS it
> is called 'gss.h' (should be available in /usr/include/gss.h for you).
> If you modify PostgreSQL to include gss.h instead of gssapi.h, hopefully
> things will work.
> 
> I don't recall anywhere in the standard that _requires_ that the header
> file is called 'gssapi.h', but I see how it could simplify building
> packages that makes this assumption (many do).
> 
> What GNU GSS could do here is to install a file
> $prefix/include/gss/compat/gssapi.h which only does '#includes <gss.h>',
> and also make 'pkg-config --cflags gss' include a
> -I$prefix/include/gss/compat directory in its output.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> /Simon
> 
> 
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