Are the plugins directories necessary for client code?

[redfloyd@gmail.com]

On Aug 7, 6:52 pm, Ken Raeburn <raeb... at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 17:18, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>
> > redfl... at gmail.com wrote:
> >> I'm building on a platform that has a half-assed posix environment
> >> (amazingly enough, it's *NOT* Windows), and the makefiles for the
> >> plugins (specificly db2) are blowing up.
>
> >> The company I'm contracting to has an existing product that a client
> >> wants kerberized.  As such, it's really only the client code  
> >> (libkrb5,
> >> clients/*).  Do I need to build the plugins for everything to work
> >> properly?
>
> >> Thanks.
> > the db2 plug-in is only used by the kdc.  it is not required if you  
> > just
> > want client support.
>
> Note that future versions will include plugins for preauth systems  
> like pkinit.  So, in the long run, you may want to get plugin support  
> working anyways...

I think the issue is actually in the configure script.  --enable-
static and --disable-shared don't work properly, and I had to
externally set then environment variable krb5_force_static to get the
thing to even configure properly.