Andrew Kuchling akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Mon Feb 19 10:28:05 EST 2001

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"John W. Baxter" <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> writes:
> Whether or not we could compile it, I don't know.  But if the code in 
> Python expects NIS to actually *do* something, we'll have a problem.

glibc 2.x includes NIS support (in libnsl), so it's available on my
Red Hat 6.2 machine, and probably on your 7.0 boxes, too.  Luckily,
the NIS test is smart enough to figure out if NIS is enabled, and
skips the test if it isn't.  I'm simply concerned whether the module
will compile everywhere.

--amk

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