Building DMD on Linux with Windows Domain Logins

[KennyTM~]

On May 24, 11 06:37, Kai Meyer wrote:
> Funny thing happened today. I tried building DMD from source, and got this:
>
> dmd: libelf.c:171: void OmToHeader(Header*, ObjModule*): Assertion `len
> <= 6' failed.
>
> Digging around, and it appears that my user ID can only be 6 characters
> long. Doh! I happen to be on a RHEL 6 workstation that can authenticate
> users via a Windows Domain Controller (using samba + winbind). My
> smb.conf looks has these two lines:
>
> idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
> idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
>
> Which is to say "If a uid or gid appears on the system, use winbind to
> resolve to a name".
>
> On my machine, my user looks like this:
> [kai.meyer at kai-rhel6 BUILD]$ id
> uid=16777216(kai.meyer) gid=16777221(domain users)
> groups=16777221(domain
> users),16777223(SENSORED),16777224(SENSORED),16777225(SENSORED),16777226(SENSORED)
>
>
> That's right. My UID is 8 characters long.
>
> Are we interested in accommodating UID and GID's that are this big?
>
> -Kai Meyer

An old bug (e.g. 
http://www.mail-archive.com/dmd-internals@puremagic.com/msg00402.html). 
The 'uid' > 6 digit problem has been worked-around, but the 'gid' hasn't.