On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 07:38:15PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 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.

Yes, same here.

> 
> > [...]
> > 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.

Ok, but never say never :-).

> 
> > 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.

Thank you!

> 
> > 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.

-- 
Marcel Telka
RPE, Systems

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