Profile include support
Simo Sorce
ssorce at redhat.com
Mon Aug 23 15:47:06 EDT 2010
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:19:12 -0400
Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 14:07 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > Greg, I'm sorry to be difficult, but I believe I may have
> > discovered an additional requirement for this package.
>
> No need to apologize; better for this to come up now than later.
>
> > 1) Allow some architecture specific directory such as libdirto be
> > substituted into profile include statements.
> >
> > 2) Allow some architecture specific directory to be substituted into
> > plugin paths.
> >
> > 3) Have plugin paths relative to libdir.
>
> I like option 3--or more precisely, the variation of making them
> realtive to ${libdir}/krb5/plugins. There's no use case for shared
> object paths being relative to the process's current working
> directory, so making them relative to libdir is harmless. Absolute
> paths would still be treated as absolute, of course.
Ack, 3 is the best way, we (RH) would probably have to patch MIT to do
it that way anyway if you don't.
Simo.
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