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Re: Make kcmd.c errors with netdb.h: Any ideas?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dtodd@partners.org)
Mon Jul 23 12:54:00 2001

From: D <dtodd@partners.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:46:27 -0500
Message-ID: <3B5C54E3.5A90608D@partners.org>
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU

Ooh....

Well did not know that it was that out of date.  Good thing to know.  I will
update then.  Thanks
alot for the reply.

==DMT>


Ezra Peisach wrote:

> Well.... Without knowing which release of krb5 you are trying to build, nor
> what platform, I think it will be very difficult to figure out how to help you.
>
> That said, it is probably a very simple problem. I would look at
> /usr/include/netdb.h line 295 and see what is conflicting.
>
> I don't want to make any guessed - but based on the path of you source
> tree (~/source/krb-5b5/src/appl/bsd) - would this be the beta 5
> distribution - which is years out of date - and has known security
> holes? Actually - looking at old versions of krb5 - by the 1.0 release
> - the variable ruser is gone from kcmd.c - which leads me to suspect an
> earlier release.
>
> If so - I strongly suggest that you upgrade to a newer version. I
> suspect that your compilation problem will be solved.
>
>    Ezra


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