Cross-rpcgen patch, version 6

[Roland McGrath]

> AFAIK the two large rpc users are NFS and NIS. TI-RPC is used today by 
> the NFSv4 code but not usable for NIS at all. And NIS is IMO fading out 
> as well but still in use... I even suggested dropping NIS but didn't 
> succeed ;-(

I use YP myself at home (and resist calling it NIS, that's how
old-fashioned I am).  But not because it's good at anything, only
because it's so much easier to set up and maintain than any of the
more modern solutions.

> The problem is that everybody is patching it in. We could add a 
> configure option to enable building against it - that would send the 
> message out as well that its obsolete.

That notion just occurred to me as well.  I would very much prefer that
it be a configure option rather than a plain reversal.  In fact, I think
we should make the default to leave it out of the API.  It's trivial for
packagers to pass another configure option.


Thanks,
Roland