[SSSD] [PATCH 1/1] Remove --with-distro-version

Lukas Slebodnik lslebodn at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 09:08:20 UTC 2014


On (19/03/14 19:35), Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
>Hi Lukas,
>
>On 03/19/2014 04:21 PM, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
>>On (19/03/14 14:59), Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
>>>Remove support for "--with-distro-version" configure option as unused.
>>>
>>>The option was added in August 2011 (d3da1c1). As of now nothing seems
>>>to use it. Packaging checked: rpm, deb, pacman, ebuilds, FreeBSD ports.
>>
>>I know it is not used. but can be used in future.
>>For example:
>>     --library for nsswitch on linux has name libnss_sss.so
>>     --library for nsswitch on *BSD has name nss_sss.so
>>This is a potential use case.
>
>This option was intended to allow distribution packaging to add a suffix to
>the version reported by "sssd --version". I'm not sure how that helps to
>differentiate library names. I'd say something like "--with-nss" should be
>used instead.
>
I have always thought it is argument "--with-distro" and should be used for
distribution specific features/differences. (maybe I am blind)

ACK

LS



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