Received: from pch.mit.edu (PCH.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.90]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.9.3p2) with ESMTP id VAA24403; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:10:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pch.mit.edu (pch.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]) by pch.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6119S67006219 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:09:28 -0400 Received: from biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.80]) by pch.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6119Smt006216 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:09:28 -0400 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k6119T5P021062; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:09:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from all-in-one.mit.edu (ALL-IN-ONE.MIT.EDU [18.18.1.71]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id k6119Q28027086 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:09:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from raeburn@localhost) by all-in-one.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id k6119QxK019297; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:09:26 -0400 To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU Subject: broken configure test for dlopen From: Ken Raeburn Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:09:26 -0400 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Score: 3.548 X-Spam-Level: *** (3.548) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-BY: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Beenthere: krb5-bugs-incoming@mailman.mit.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Sender: krb5-bugs-incoming-bounces@PCH.mit.edu Errors-To: krb5-bugs-incoming-bounces@PCH.mit.edu X-RT-Original-Encoding: us-ascii Content-Length: 548 Currently we look for dlopen() in -ldl. We *don't* look to see if we get dlopen without that library. So on a system without that library, like Tru64 5.1, the plugin support (including all KDC-side database access) will be broken. The failure mode for not having a plugin system implemented is to quietly not find any plugins, and let the caller deal (or fail to). For example, from kdb5_util create: create: Unable to find requested database type while creating database '/home/raeburn/krb5/krb5-1.5/alpha/Install/var/krb5kdc/principal' Ken