Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Check for heimdal fails due to sed call

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> Jean-Baptiste Marchand wrote:

> > These days, to compile Kerberos decryption support with Heimdal on a
> > FreeBSD 5.x system, I have to edit configure to :
> >  - remove the two occurences of the 'i' flag in sed commands

Those were removed a little while ago.

> >  - remove the addition of -lresolv (resolv library), apparently not
> >    needed, at least with the version of heimdal shipped with FreeBSD.
>
>
> The checkin that added that had the comment
>
>     Workaround for (at least) some RedHat platforms:
>     Add -lresolv in case it's missing but required by the heimdal libs.
>
> so there apparently *are* platforms where it's needed.
>
> The problem is that the test just checks whether -lresolv is missing, 
> not whether it's missing *and* required.
>
> The test we'd probably have to do would be to link some program with the 
> Heimdal library without -lresolv and, if that fails, add -lresolv.

I've checked in a change that should do that.