We are using MIT Kerberos to provide secure authentication and communication in our applications. I am trying to migrate from MIT krb5 1.5.x to 1.6.x version and I noticed that the static library compilation is not available in latest MIT krb5 source code configuration.

There must be some valid reasons to remove the static library compilation from latest MIT krb5 source code. We came across problems while using Postgres DB installed on system (which depends on older Kerberos versions) and our application (which may depend on latest Kerberos version).

This problem can be solved in two different ways:

We use the same MIT Kerberos libraries in our application as used in postgres db development libraries. We have no control over the postgres database installation on target system where our application supposed to run. Also we may have to compile and manage multiple versions of our application for different MIT versions.
We used static Kerberos libraries from krb5 1.5 source code in our application to separate the API call interaction between third party development libraries i.e. postgres and our application.

Please let us know if static libraries can be compiled in the latest krb5 1.6 source code release. Is it possible to adjust the configure scripts to introduce the static library compilation back. In anyway we can help in this effort to put back to static Kerberos library compilation.

SAM SHARMA