Attempting to build and test under Cygwin
Sam Hartman
hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Jul 8 17:02:30 EDT 2004
>>>>> "David" == David E Sigeti <sigeti at lanl.gov> writes:
David> Dear Sam,
David> At 07:13 PM 7/7/2004, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> >>>>> "David" == David E Sigeti <sigeti at lanl.gov> writes:
>>
David> Dear Kerberos Folks, I am attempting to build and test MIT
David> krb5 1.3.4 under Cygwin on a W2K machine. The tests fail
David> in the db2 utility. The output is (in part):
>> I'm sort of impressed you got it to complie. From time to
>> time people say they want cygwin builds working and sometimes
>> get it building but for the most part do not offer to submit
>> clean patches to fix problems they encounter. We wouldn't mind
>> cygwin builds working but don't have resources to dedicate to
>> it ourselves.
David> The changes required to build are fairly minor and seem
David> that they should be in the code in any case. For example,
David> a function gets called even when its definition is not
David> compiled because of conditional compilation.
Please submit bugs.
David> However, there is still the problem of the failed test.
David> Any thoughts on that? I should point out that I will only
David> be running clients. Is it possible that I don't need the
David> database at all?
You don't need the database. It is only used by the kdc and admin
libraries.
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