Cross-rpcgen patch, version 6

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 05/09/2012 09:34 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> 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.

It is indeed.

>> 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.

Indeed, I'll send a separate patch,

Andreas
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