krb5-1.6.4-beta1 is available

[Ken Raeburn]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 14:23, Damian Hazen wrote:
> There is a linking issue when building kerberos on AIX 5.  This  
> problem
> has been around for a few kerberos releases now and it would be really
> helpful if it could be addressed.  For AIX 5, kerberos is now building
> run-time linking shared objects (see config/shlib.conf) instead of
> archives.   This breaks executables which want to link against them
> unless the executable explicitly requests run-time linking.

Unfortunately, we don't have any functional AIX systems to test with  
here.  (We used to have an AIX 4 system, donated by IBM, but its disk  
died and we've done nothing about it, much like our scrounged Tru64  
5.1 system.  No AIX 5 to play with.  So far as I've heard, these  
platforms aren't the highest priorities to support among our  
sponsors.)  This is, I think, the first "normal UNIX" build system  
(i.e., not Mac OS X, which is already treated specially in a bunch of  
ways) where dynamically loaded objects (e.g., preauth or kdb plugins)  
and shared libraries (e.g., libkrb5) can be built differently, so it  
may take a few rounds of debugging.

I'm unclear on whether the previous change was broken since,  
incomplete, or just wrong; I'm quite willing to believe we broke  
something since getting the patch or in applying it.  https:// 
krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=3176 has the prior  
discussion that led to these changes in the first place.  There are  
some patches there we haven't incorporated.  Perhaps some of them fix  
this problem?

-- 
Ken Raeburn, Senior Programmer
MIT Kerberos Consortium