Re: 8.0 Dynamic Linker Broken? (Was: [PATCH] SASL problems with spnego on 8.0-BETA4)

John Marshall wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Oct 2009, 08:24 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Friday 02 October 2009 4:13:19 am John Marshall wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 08:22 +1000, John Marshall wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, 11:26 -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
>>>>
>   [snip]
>>>>> Now, hopefully someone who understands enough about dynamic linking will
>>>>> know if this is the correct fix for 8.0? (I'm going on a couple of weeks
>>>>> vacation at the end of this week, so I won't be around to commit 
>>>>> anything
>>>>> and don't understand it well enough to know if this is the correct way
>>>>> to fix it.)
>>>>>
>>>>> So, hopefully someone else can pick this one up?
>>>>>
>   [snip]
>>>> I have submitted a patch to the FreeBSD Makefile which patches the
>>>> vendor-supplied template for krb5-config.  I should be grateful if dfr_at_
>>>> or another src committer would please review this with a view to
>>>> obtaining re_at_ approval to commit it before 8.0-RC2.
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139037>
>>> Any src committers able to help with this?
>> Hmmm, I thought that libgssapi was supposed to use dlopen to load the proper 
>> back-end libraries using /etc/gss/mech rather than having applications 
>> directly link against them.
> 
> OK, so if my proposed solution is, in fact, only masking a symptom of a
> broken dynamic linker, would somebody who understands this stuff please
> weigh in on this with some debugging suggestions or with a patch to
> address this problem?
> 
> I'm able to help with testing but I'm not a programmer and know nothing
> about the FreeBSD dynamic linker.

I don't think the dynamic linker is broken.  I would suspect a bug in 
libgssapi itself instead.

-- 
John Baldwin