Building DMD on Linux with Windows Domain Logins

[Kai Meyer]

On 05/24/2011 12:34 AM, KennyTM~ wrote:
> 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

On the bright side, the rpm builds on RHEL6 with no problems if I build 
it with a UID/GID of 500 :)

-Kai Meyer