Re: [PATCH roland/disable-nscd] BZ#13696: --disable-nscd configure option

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Thursday 16 August 2012 19:52:05 Roland McGrath wrote:
> This adds the --disable-nscd configure option to make libc not try
> to contact nscd at all.  I've only done the most basic testing (on
> x86_64-linux-gnu): 'make check' has no regressions, but that doesn't
> really test any of the functionality affected.  I did a few random
> 'getent' runs by hand with the just-built (not installed) binaries
> from a --disable-nscd build (on a system that didn't have nscd
> running anyway), and they seemed to work fine.

i've generally tried to avoid the nss layers of glibc, but i don't see 
anything crazy here

maybe Ben Chan could give this a look over ...
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-08/msg00377.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-08/msg00340.html

> I haven't decided what I think about that.  Obvious options:
> 
> 1. Leave it as it is, wholly separate options.  People who use
>    --disable-nscd alone will get the subtly-different nscd built
>    (and installed).

since we've got this work already, we can just merge this now and see about 
squashing later

fwiw, in Gentoo, i'll have a single nscd flag that controls both options ;)
-mike

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