On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:40:34PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:15:40AM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
> > >    Technically it should be possible to use SASL/GSSAPI without linking
> > >    with libgss at all.  Can you confirm that mutt can / cannot do
> > >    SASL/GSSAPI just by configuring it with --with-sasl but without
> > >    --with-gss?
> 
> I analyzed the situation and it looks like --with-gss is not needed once we
> have --with-sasl.
> 
> The SASL/GSSAPI support in mutt is handled by /usr/lib/sasl/gssapi.so.1
> library. OTOH, the direct GSSAPI support in mutt is covered by
> /usr/lib/libgss.so library.

I would prefer the --with-sasl way.  It seems that the --with-gss way
re-implements (duplicates) functionality that we already have in
Solaris' SASL implementation.  I would prefer to avoid that duplication.

> [...]
> The above means that the CR 6805664 "Add GSS-API support to mutt" is duplicate
> of CR 6780832 "Add SASL support to mutt".

:)

> In case when the situation described above will change in the future, we can
> add direct GSSAPI support to mutt later.

It shouldn't.

> I'll close the CR 6805664 as duplicate of the CR 6780832.

Excellent.

> I uploaded new webrev at:
> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~aragorn/6780832-mutt-sasl/

Looks good.

> I'll update the new mutt binary built without the --with-gss in few hours. 
> Once
> the build is finished.

Thanks.  I'll test it tomorrow.

Nico
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