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

[Simon Josefsson]

Markus Mazurczak <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Hi again.  Great, let me know if you run into any other issues.  I
haven't heard of anyone building PostgreSQL with GNU GSS before.

/Simon

> 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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