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Re: [PATCH] Update the build system on *nix to support Cyrus SASL

From: Max Bowsher <maxb1_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2006-05-31 18:38:48 CEST

Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2006-05-31 16:30:13 +0300, Vlad Georgescu wrote:
>> I changed the build system to handle passing --with-sasl[=PATH] to
>> configure.
>>
>> [[[
>> Update the build system on *nix to support Cyrus SASL.
>>
>> * build/ac-macros/sasl.m4: New file.
>> * configure.in: Call SVN_SASL_LIB.
>> * Makefile.in
>> (SVN_SASL_LIBS, SVN_SASL_INCLUDES): New AC_SUBSTed variables.
>> Add SVN_SASL_INCLUDES to INCLUDES.
>> * aclocal.m4
>> Add build/ac-macros/sasl.m4 to the list of supplementary macros.
>> * build.conf
>> (sasl): New entry.
>> (libsvn_ra_svn, svnserve): Add sasl to the list of dependencies.
>> ]]]
>>
>> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> will you support dovecot sasl on the server side?

Whilst that might be an interesting idea for the future, I support
Vlad's scoping of his SoC proposal to getting good SASL support working
with just one specific SASL library implementation (Cyrus).

> configuring postfix for dovecot sasl is much easier.
> timo is relicensing the sasl code as bsd. (process is running atm)

Glancing briefly at postfix, it looks like they are using a custom
reimplementation of code to talk to the dovecot auth daemon. Whilst the
Dovecot SASL implementation does, as far as I'm aware, have a reputation
for quality, it is still undergoing the process of transitioning from an
integral part of dovecot itself, to a deliberately re-usable library. As
such, I think we should definitely devote attention to it, but it
doesn't seem like an ideal basis on which to build our initial SASL
integration.

Max.

Received on Wed May 31 18:40:06 2006

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