From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: libtirpc and nis Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:03:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4A279C05.9030108@RedHat.com> References: <200906031002.38551.vapier@gentoo.org> <200906031844.34398.vapier@gentoo.org> <047CD688-878B-4504-BD59-3C0B65C1B631@oracle.com> <200906032012.21876.vapier@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Chuck Lever , Linux NFS Mailing list , libtirpc To: Mike Frysinger Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38574 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756912AbZFDKG7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:06:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200906032012.21876.vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:59:09 Chuck Lever wrote: >> On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:14:44 Steve Dickson wrote: >>>> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>>>> the libtirpc package is self described as a "standalone package". i >>>>> wonder how far that actually goes. wrt NIS, it requires the >>>>> system C >>>>> library to provide NIS functionality or you get a build failure in >>>>> a few >>>>> files. would be nice if libtirpc were usable without any NIS >>>>> baggage at >>>>> all. >>>> NIS used RPC procedures to communicate. As it stands today >>>> NIS is currently using the RPC procedures glibc. In the >>>> future there is a very good chance that NIS will start >>>> using the RPC procedures in libtirpc especially if >>>> IPV6 support is needed... >>>> >>>> So I'm a bit confused on what you mean by "NIS baggage" >>>> in the libtirpc package. >>> you cannot build libtirpc on a system that doesnt provide NIS >>> functionality. >>> realistic RPC usage today is NFS related services only (i.e. a NFS >>> client >>> mounting a share on a NFS server). >> Mike, it would help if you could provide the build output so we can >> see exactly what's failing. > > libtirpc does not provide rpcsvc/nis.h Hmm... I wonder what it would take to incorporate that file into libitrpc... steved.