In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Raeburn writes: > On Jul 14, 2006, at 17:22, Cy Schubert wrote: > > Upgrading a testbed here, I'm receiving messages stating "Unable to > > find > > requested database type" from krb5kdc and kdb5_util, on a FreeBSD > > platform. > > Running truss against applications show that it successfully stats > > db2.so. > > What else should I look at? > > It's likely caused by our plugin code not properly loading the > module. If it doesn't open the file after the stat call, the likely > cause is a bug in our configure scripts such that dlopen won't be > used if the "dl" library isn't found. (We check for dlopen in that > library, but not for dlopen being available *without* that library. > If we can't link against that library and find the function, we > lose. Oops.) This is discussed in http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/ > Display.html?id=3971 . > > If it does try to open it, and fails after that point, it may be > something new....
Indeed that was the problem. FreeBSD has no libdl, the dl*() functions are in libc. As there is no libdl, the configure scripts didn't bother to check for the existance of the dl*() functions [in libc] and failed quietly at that. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: http://www.komquats.com and http://www.bcbodybuilder.com FreeBSD UNIX: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org BC Government: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Lift long enough and I believe arrogance is replaced by humility and fear by courage and selfishness by generosity and rudeness by compassion and caring." -- Dave Draper ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
