[1507] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: lib/rpc -> lib/gssrpc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Aug 6 13:26:52 1996
To: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbcore@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Aug 1996 11:20:56 EDT."
<199608061520.LAA19234@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 13:26:34 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
In message <199608061520.LAA19234@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU>, Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> * Leave things mostly as they are; let our rpc/netdb.h shadow
>> the system one, and when the /usr/include/netdb.h includes
>> rpc/netdb.h, it ends up with ours. Maybe the cpp symbol
>> STRUCT_RPCENT_ALREADY_PROVIDED should be
>> STRUCT_RPCENT_IN_RPC_NETDB_H (or something similar) to make it
>> more clear what it really means, and also clearly comment the
>> part of the configure.in that is relevant. The problem here
>> is that it may mislead programmers into thinking that our
>> gssprc and the vendor rpc headers are interchangeable, which
>> they are not.
>>
>> I am beginning to think that the last option is likely to be the best
>> one for our purposes.
I agree. I have made such changes to the cygnus tree, and if I don't
migrate them to MIT before I leave, someone else here will.
Marc
