[1486] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: proposal: db support in aname_to_localname going away
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Fri Aug 2 14:46:32 1996
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:37:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of 02 Aug 1996 10:16:24 -0400
>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com> writes:
Ken> Another possible solution is to merge db into libkrb5.so, but
Ken> maintain a simple set of patches (a bunch of #defines,
Ken> really) which rename all the exported names to keep them
Ken> under the krb5_* part of the namespace. I know Marc doesn't
Ken> want to maintain even that much of a difference from the
Ken> distribution version, but I think it's a minor bit of work
Ken> and makes our code friendlier in terms of namespace
Ken> intrusion.
Don't forget a large set of patches to the build process that
allows us to build PIC code on all platforms.
--Sam
