[Freeciv-Dev] Re: client/server authentication (PR#1767)

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 04:05:38PM -0700, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > 
> > If you don't want different names how will Paul implement the mysql
> > version of the userdb for pubserver? It looks like he first have to
> > remove the code for the registry version?!
> 
> easily:
> 
> % cd /home/pubserver/src/mysqldb   # for example
> % make
> % ls
> Makefile      user_db.c       user_db.h       
> user.h                libdb.a
> % cd /home/pubserver/src/freeciv
> % ./autogen.sh --enable-auth=/home/pubserver/src/mysqldb/libdb.a
> 
> this makes freeciv link the external lib instead of the default one.

And from which freeciv versions are the user_db.h and user.h file? 
IMHO these should be got from the freeciv version we compile
against. If not we get hard to find bugs because an int in struct user
is changed to a short.

        Raimar

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