--with-gssapi with Heimdal is ignored on macOS unless you also pass --with-gssapi-libs

[JCMais]

This happens because of this check:

curl/configure.ac

Lines 1411 to 1416 in c86d635

	elif test -z "$GSSAPI_LIB_DIR"; then
	case $host in
	*-*-darwin*)
	LIBS="-lgssapi_krb5 -lresolv $LIBS"
	;;
	*)

It ignores completely the cases where GSSAPI_ROOT is different than the default (/usr, set here https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/configure.ac#L1316)

I discovered that by building a static linked version of libcurl with Heimdal.

The curl binary was being linked with -lgssapi_krb5 instead of -lgssapi which is the library reported by $path_to_heimdal/bin/krb5-config --libs gssapi

For Kerberos (MIT) it works correctly, in reality it fails if we pass --with-gssapi-libs, because it then tries to link against -lgssapi but on Kerberos it's -lgssapi_krb5.

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[JCMais]

ty stale bot, but the problem still exists

[bagder]

@JCMais any chance you can propose a fix? Otherwise I believe this issue will get mentioned in KNOWN_BUGS and this issue here get closed.

[JCMais]

@bagder tt's unlikely I will be able to propose a fix to this issue.

Feel free to mention it on KNOWN_BUGS and close the issue. 👍