Building DMD on Linux with Windows Domain Logins

[KennyTM~]

On May 24, 11 12:55, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/23/2011 4:10 PM, KennyTM~ wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Post to bugzilla!

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6050