[5157] in Kerberos
Re: Porting KRB5 to Linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri May 12 11:00:32 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 12 May 1995 14:53:04 GMT
From: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mr. Bass,
The people who read the kerberos@mit.edu mailing list and the
comp.protocols.kerberos newsgroup are trying to help you. We are as eager for
the various Kerberos distributions to be portable and build easily on Linux as
you are. However, we cannot help you unless you provide *specific* details
about the problems you are having. We continue to ask you for specific
details, and you continue to speak in generalities which do not help us to
solve your problems.
To start, stop saying that this happens "regardless of the origin being of
cygnus flavor or mit flavor." That is not sufficient. You must tell us
*exactly what Kerberos release you are trying to build*. If you don't
understand how to determine that from the files that come with the release,
then just tell us the FTP site from which you obtained it and the exact
file(s) you transferred.
Next, you wrote, "The configure script has a problem with libl.a and libfl.a."
OK, but *which* configure script? What directory in the distribution you are
using failed to build properly? You said, "i kludged it by quickly linking
libfl.a to libl.a..." but did you also send a bug report to krb5-bugs@mit.edu?
The comp.protocols.kerberos newsgroup is not the bug-reporting address for
MIT's Kerberos 5 distribution. The correct address, krb5-bugs@mit.edu, is
clearly documented in the distribution.
You said that you are trying to build Kerberos "in linux." But *which* Linux
are you trying to build on? What distribution did you use to install your
machine? What version of it? What compiler-related packages did you install
when you installed your machine (e.g., did you install the Slackware "flex"
package?)? Have you reinstalled any of the original compiler-related software
outside of a distribution package?
Finally, you said, "There are some others," i.e., other problems building the
distribution on Linux. What, *specifically*, are they? Again, have you sent
detailed bug reports to krb5-bugs@mit.edu?
You are acting as if the people for whom Kerberos built easily on Linux did
something wrong, as if they're your enemies just because they had an easier
time at it than you did. They're not. We're all working together to achieve
the same thing -- working, useful software. You will find that if you help
people help you, you'll get a lot more accomplished than if you flame about
how the people who claim Kerberos built out of the box on Linux are lying.
--
Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@cam.ov.com
