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Huttel To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [glibc] configure: Disable building libcrypt by default X-Act-Checkin: glibc X-Git-Author: Siddhesh Poyarekar X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master X-Git-Oldrev: 3edca7f545d226bfbf553e676e22cbfec14adfe8 X-Git-Newrev: 6c85c5a1773d786ccdc375e34431488fbcdd88e0 Message-Id: <20230720183857.5DDF93858CDB@sourceware.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:38:57 +0000 (GMT) List-Id: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=6c85c5a1773d786ccdc375e34431488fbcdd88e0 commit 6c85c5a1773d786ccdc375e34431488fbcdd88e0 Author: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Mon Jul 17 12:44:17 2023 -0400 configure: Disable building libcrypt by default We mentioned eventual dropping of libcrypt in the 2.28 NEWS. Actually put that plan in motion by first disabling building libcrypt by default. note in NEWS that the library will be dropped completely in a future release. Also add a couple of builds into build-many-glibcs.py. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar Reviewed-by: Andreas K. Hüttel Diff: --- INSTALL | 22 ++++++++++++---------- NEWS | 5 +++++ configure | 4 ++-- configure.ac | 6 +++--- manual/install.texi | 22 ++++++++++++---------- scripts/build-many-glibcs.py | 8 ++++++-- 6 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 30b874cd3a..da24b95c97 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -228,16 +228,18 @@ if ‘CFLAGS’ is specified it must enable optimization. For example: By default for x86_64, the GNU C Library is built with the vector math library. Use this option to disable the vector math library. -‘--disable-crypt’ - Do not install the passphrase-hashing library ‘libcrypt’ or the - header file ‘crypt.h’. ‘unistd.h’ will still declare the function - ‘crypt’. Using this option does not change the set of programs - that may need to be linked with ‘-lcrypt’; it only means that the - GNU C Library will not provide that library. - - This option is for hackers and distributions experimenting with - independently-maintained implementations of libcrypt. It may - become the default in a future release. +‘--enable-crypt’ + Install the legacy passphrase-hashing library ‘libcrypt’ and the + header file ‘crypt.h’. ‘unistd.h’ will declare the function + ‘crypt’ regardless of this option. Using this option does not + change the set of programs that may need to be linked with + ‘-lcrypt’; it only means that the GNU C Library will provide that + library. + + This option is for hackers and distributions who may not yet be + able to use libcrypt alternatives such as libxcrypt and need this + legacy implementation as a temporary workaround. Note that + libcrypt may be removed in a future release. ‘--disable-scv’ Disable using ‘scv’ instruction for syscalls. All syscalls will diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f976abccbd..93f7d9faaa 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Major new features: Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: +* libcrypt is no longer built by default, one may use the --enable-crypt + option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the + GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that + applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt. + * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which diff --git a/configure b/configure index c02c0b5825..d2a0eb9734 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ Optional Features: architectures --enable-memory-tagging enable memory tagging if supported by the architecture [default=no] - --disable-crypt do not build nor install the passphrase hashing + --enable-crypt build and install the legacy passphrase hashing library, libcrypt --enable-nss-crypt enable libcrypt to use nss --enable-systemtap enable systemtap static probe points [default=no] @@ -4577,7 +4577,7 @@ if test ${enable_crypt+y} then : enableval=$enable_crypt; build_crypt=$enableval else $as_nop - build_crypt=yes + build_crypt=no fi diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 09553541fb..f508a3722b 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -316,10 +316,10 @@ fi AC_SUBST(memory_tagging) AC_ARG_ENABLE([crypt], - AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-crypt], - [do not build nor install the passphrase hashing library, libcrypt]), + AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-crypt], + [build and install the legacy passphrase hashing library, libcrypt]), [build_crypt=$enableval], - [build_crypt=yes]) + [build_crypt=no]) AC_SUBST(build_crypt) AC_ARG_ENABLE([nss-crypt], diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index be27a1b600..623d64a4b5 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -256,16 +256,18 @@ configure with @option{--disable-werror}. By default for x86_64, @theglibc{} is built with the vector math library. Use this option to disable the vector math library. -@item --disable-crypt -Do not install the passphrase-hashing library @file{libcrypt} or the -header file @file{crypt.h}. @file{unistd.h} will still declare the -function @code{crypt}. Using this option does not change the set of -programs that may need to be linked with @option{-lcrypt}; it only -means that @theglibc{} will not provide that library. - -This option is for hackers and distributions experimenting with -independently-maintained implementations of libcrypt. It may become -the default in a future release. +@item --enable-crypt +Install the legacy passphrase-hashing library @file{libcrypt} and the +header file @file{crypt.h}. @file{unistd.h} will declare the function +@code{crypt} regardless of this option. Using this option does not +change the set of programs that may need to be linked with +@option{-lcrypt}; it only means that @theglibc{} will provide that +library. + +This option is for hackers and distributions who may not yet be able to +use libcrypt alternatives such as libxcrypt and need this legacy +implementation as a temporary workaround. Note that libcrypt may be +removed in a future release. @item --disable-scv Disable using @code{scv} instruction for syscalls. All syscalls will use diff --git a/scripts/build-many-glibcs.py b/scripts/build-many-glibcs.py index e4eaec01e3..73ffc57c86 100755 --- a/scripts/build-many-glibcs.py +++ b/scripts/build-many-glibcs.py @@ -431,7 +431,9 @@ class Context(object): {'variant': 'disable-multi-arch', 'arch': 'sparcv9', 'ccopts': '-m32 -mlong-double-128 -mcpu=v9', - 'cfg': ['--disable-multi-arch']}]) + 'cfg': ['--disable-multi-arch']}, + {'variant': 'enable-crypt', + 'cfg': ['--enable-crypt']}]) self.add_config(arch='x86_64', os_name='linux-gnu', gcc_cfg=['--with-multilib-list=m64,m32,mx32'], @@ -466,7 +468,9 @@ class Context(object): {'arch': 'i586', 'ccopts': '-m32 -march=i586'}, {'variant': 'enable-fortify-source', - 'cfg': ['--enable-fortify-source']}]) + 'cfg': ['--enable-fortify-source']}, + {'variant': 'enable-crypt', + 'cfg': ['--enable-crypt']}]) self.add_config(arch='x86_64', os_name='gnu', gcc_cfg=['--disable-multilib'])