[20480] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Adding external library dependencies to .pc files for static
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Hecker)
Thu Feb 29 12:17:58 2024
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From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:17:32 -0800
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To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>, krbdev@mit.edu
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I have been building it static for years, so yes I would be very interested
to hear about your weird and sneaky problem details!
Chris
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 05:34 Ken Hornstein via krbdev <krbdev@mit.edu>
wrote:
> >When building static krb5 libraries --with-keyutils, mit-krb5.pc will
> >not contain any references to keyutils. This makes linking statically
> >against krb5 fail when relying on pkg-config to provide the linker flags.
> >[...]
>
> I have to caution you that building static Kerberos libraries is (as
> I understand it) not officially supported, and I personally ran into
> a very sneaky and weird problem that caused some Kerberos programs to
> start crashing where the ultimate problem was due to the use of static
> libraries (I can go into details if people are interested). This
> was admittedly a bit of a corner case that you may not encounter but
> it is something worth thinking carefully about.
>
> --Ken
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