Re: Darwin/MacOSX 10.1.1 configure issues with b3

>A lot of these issues may not be Postgres, but here are the problems
>I ran into in the configure stage with the b3 version.

One other thing:  This is probably me, but I can't use Java because I
don't have ant, but ant seems to require ant to install ant.  As far
as I could tell from their web page a few months ago.

I know I don't know enough to try ODBC, but when I get a copy of
Office for X I know I'll want it.

>Can't use kerberos 5 "error: library com_err is required for
>Kerberos 5"  There is such a library and a man page for such a
>routine.  If you create a 3-line dummey program to reference
>com_err() and use -lcom_err then you get some funny unresolved
>external reference by way of the kerberos 5 framework (which I never
>asked for).  I'm not sure if this is a real problem in Apple's
>framework mechanism or a funny in the way configure and I are
>checking for the existence of the routine.
>
>Can't use openssl because there is no ssl.h file.  This is an old
>10.0 bug that I would have hoped was fixed by now.  It does mean I
>can't test the openssl integration until I re-fix it though.
>
>Can't use tk.  I loaded the alpha release of the native Aqua Tk
>port.  It gets me a Wish Shell.app, not a /usr/bin/wish.  This seems
>reasonable, but how do we get Postgres to use it?  Can Postgres use
>it?
>
>The Tcl header files are in two different non-standard places.  I
>had to sudo ln -s to get links all in one directory since it appears
>you can only have one --with-includes configure option.  At least
>the 8.4 alpha includes the headers since the 8.3 with 10.0 didn't.
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