circular dependency cyrus-sasl2 - kerberos5 - gnupg - openldap

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 9, 2012, at 16:44, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34786
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>> I caused this by adding the kerberos5 dependency to cyrus-sasl2:
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>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/94003
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>> But just removing that dependency is not enough, because cyrus-sasl2 does opportunistically link with kerberos5 if it is there. I would appreciate it if someone else can take a look at the ticket, make a decision about what the best fix is, and provide a patch or commit a fix.
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> We had previously put some kerberos libs (the heimdal port IIRC) into a directory that wouldn't normally get searched to work around a similar problem with other ports (where they would pick up the installed ports libs).

See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34230 for some work on that.


> We should probably revert the change that caused the dependency loop right away (if you haven't already) and then fix cyrus-sasl to not opportunistically link with the kerberos libs.

Eric fixed the problem and broke the cycle by removing the gnupg dependency from the kerberos5 port. Thanks Eric.