Attempting to build and test under Cygwin

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "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.