krb5-1.3.1 and fetchmail 6.2.5

Nalin Dahyabhai nalin at redhat.com
Tue Nov 25 21:19:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:13:31PM -0800, Globe Trotter wrote:
> trying to configure fetchmail6.2.5 with krb5-1.3.1 and kerberos-5 support, I
> get the following:
> 
> %./configure --with-gssapi --with-kerberos5 --with-hesiod
> 
> after a lot of stuff, I get the following......
> 
> checking for Kerberos V in /usr/kerberos... not found
> checking for Kerberos V in /usr/local/krb5... not found
> checking for Kerberos V in /usr/athena... not found
> checking for Kerberos V in /usr... found
> checking for krb5_des_string_to_key in -lcrypto... no
> checking for krb5_des_string_to_key in -lk5crypto... no
> configure: error: Kerberos 5 DES libraries not found
> 
> Any ideas where these Kerberos 5 DES libraries are now?

They're there if you have the krb5-devel package installed, 6.2.5 just
doesn't know that the symbol it's checking for in libk5crypto became a
private symbol in krb5 1.3.  Andreas Hasenack mentioned this on the
fetchmail mailing list, I need to reply there.

Nalin





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