Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [patch] Search harder for krb5-config

[Brad Hards <bradh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:40 am, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:47 am, Thomas Anders wrote:
> > Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:24:58PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote:
> > >>+         AC_PATH_PROG(KRB5_CONFIG, krb5-config,,
> > >> [$PATH:/usr/kerberos/bin])
> > >
> > > I don't like this. Please fix your PATH before calling krb5-config.
> > > Either you want to use kerberos, then it should be added to your path,
> > > or you don't, then it's irrelevant whether it is in the path or not.
> >
> > I was about to reply the same way, but still an important questions is:
> > did this installation (in /usr/kerberos) come with a common vendor
> > package or was it a manual installation? If there's a common vendor
> > package that puts it this way, we may want to deal with it, even though
> > it's considered broken to not have it in $PATH then.
>
> It is a standard Fedora Core 2 installation location - see below. Sure I
> could have passed that, or hacked my path, or whatever. Sure I could have
> hand munged the Makefiles and config.h to work anyway. However I do want to
> use kerberos, but I don't want to change my $PATH just because my packager
> got it a bit abnormal. I just thought it was nicer if Ethereal could do it
> for me (now and in the future), and it isn't that big a change.
Ignore this. I have a configuration problem. Sorry for the noise.

Brad

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