Re: included samba library

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-2] Pavel Arno?t wrote:

It looks like people with certain names tend to be more interested in GNU
midnight Commander than others ;-)

> what about updating included samba library? there are couple of problems
> with current one (for example, problems with redhat linux 7.2 headers
> files)
>
> btw, samba library has support for ssl, ldap, nis...are these
> enhancement usable with midnight commander?

I think the inclusion of the library into the sources was a hack that
shouldn't consume more and more programming resources.

GNU Midnight Commander should link against an external Samba library.  If
such library doesn't exist, the build system of Samba needs to be changed
so that it's created.

Updating Samba sources in the mc distribution would be a temporary
solution and would need to be repeated over and over again.

Also, the sources included with mc have been changed to remove unnecessary
code, in particular configure checks.  This will be needed every time
Samba is updated.

If you can fix problems with Red Hat 7.2 headers (I'm not aware of any),
it will be applied.  If you want anything more radical, please talk to
Samba folks first and ask them to make a library with stable API.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin