krb5 on 64bit processor

[Mike Friedman]

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On Tue, 3 May 2005 at 19:28 (-0400), Ken Raeburn wrote:

> On May 3, 2005, at 11:43, prashant sodhiya wrote:
>> does any version of MIT kerberos-5 has support for 64 bit processors..
>
> Sure.  We've been using alpha, ultrasparc (in 64-bit mode) and opteron
> systems running UNIX-type software to test the 1.4 release, and I think
> we used all of them with the 1.3 release too.  There are occasional
> problems, but mostly they've had more to do with, e.g., our RPC library
> not being able to register a service with the NetBSD rpcbind daemon, not
> 64-bit-specific issues.  (Which is not to say that there might not still
> be some issues, like large-file support, that may be related to doing
> some things in 64-bit math, but the basic stuff seems to be working.)

However, we ran into a problem compiling krb5-1.3.4 on Solaris 8 for
64bit, trying to use the recommended 'CFLAGS=-m64' with gcc.  It turned
out that in src/lib/crypto/aes, there appears to be an error in
Makefile.in. When we changed

   $(CC) -o aes-gen aes-gen.o $(GEN_OBJS)

to

   $(CC_LINK) -o aes-gen aes-gen.o $(GEN_OBJS)

the compile worked OK.  As it was originally, the 'CFLAGS=-m64'
specification on configure was not being honored.

I don't know if this has been fixed in versions later than 1.3.4.

Mike

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