Re: included samba library

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <andrew email zp ua>]

> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-2] Pavel Arno?t wrote:
> > what about updating included samba library? there are couple of problems
> > with current one (for example, problems with redhat linux 7.2 headers
> > files)

I am suprised to read about this kind of problems, I had no such ones
for RH 7.2 and 7.3. Can you tell some more details?

> > btw, samba library has support for ssl, ldap, nis...are these
> > enhancement usable with midnight commander?

No.
 
> 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.

It sounds good, but it is not interesting for Samba team.  They have
libsmbclient shared library, but API are different for each of release.
I modified mc sources for Samba 2.2.4, but it was broken for 2.2.5 and
so on.

> 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.

It was just wasted time for me, may be you will be more lucky.

-- 
Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov.