Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:54:26 -0400 From: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> To: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, George Mamalakis <mamalos@eng.auth.gr>, Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Subject: Re: 8.0 Dynamic Linker Broken? (Was: [PATCH] SASL problems with spnego on 8.0-BETA4) Message-ID: <4AC9FA92.70903@baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20091004230720.GA1086@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> References: <4AB27FB6.4010806@eng.auth.gr> <20090921222241.GF1001@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <20091002081319.GN37304@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <200910020824.15488.john@baldwin.cx> <20091004230720.GA1086@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au>
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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@ >>>> or another src committer would please review this with a view to >>>> obtaining re@ 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
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