MIT Kerberos Documentation


Building Kerberos V5

Build Requirements

In order to build Kerberos V5, you will need approximately 60-70 megabytes of disk space. The exact amount will vary depending on the platform and whether the distribution is compiled with debugging symbol tables or not.

Your C compiler must conform to ANSI C (ISO/IEC 9899:1990, “c89”). Some operating systems do not have an ANSI C compiler, or their default compiler requires extra command-line options to enable ANSI C conformance.

If you wish to keep a separate build tree, which contains the compiled *.o file and executables, separate from your source tree, you will need a make program which supports VPATH, or you will need to use a tool such as lndir to produce a symbolic link tree for your build tree.

The first step in each of these build procedures is to unpack the source distribution. The Kerberos V5 distribution comes in a tar file, generally named krb5-1.9.tar (for version 1.9. We will assume that version is 1.9. Please, adjust this number accordingly), which contains a compressed tar file consisting of the sources for all of Kerberos (generally krb5-1.9.tar.gz) and a PGP signature for this source tree (generally krb5-1.9.tar.gz.asc). MIT highly recommends that you verify the integrity of the source code using this signature.

Unpack the compressed tar file in some directory, such as /u1/krb5-1.9. (In the rest of this document, we will assume that you have chosen to unpack the Kerberos V5 source distribution in this directory. Note that the tarfiles will by default all unpack into the ./krb5-1.9 directory, so that if your current directory is /u1 when you unpack the tarfiles, you will get /u1/krb5-1.9/src, etc.)