From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: Remove add-ons mechanism
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3368915.savkYuAEhr@porto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709281748010.30081@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
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Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2017, 19:49:28 CEST schrieb Joseph Myers:
> glibc has an add-ons mechanism to allow additional software to be
> integrated into the glibc build.
[...]
> libidn used to have separate release tarballs
> but no longer does so, but still uses the add-ons mechanism within the
> glibc source tree.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libidn.git;a=shortlog
Doesn't look dead to me; actually the libidn inside glibc looks way outdated
(before 2012 I think).
See also https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22247
[CVE-2017-14062 : Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
puny_decode.c in libidn]
> Various other software has supported building with
> the add-ons mechanism at times in the past, but I don't think any is
> still widely used.
> libidn is now built via the Subdirs mechanism to cause any
> configuration using sysdeps/unix/inet to build libidn; HAVE_LIBIDN
> (which effectively means shared libraries are available) is now
> defined via sysdeps/unix/inet/configure.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-05 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-28 17:49 Joseph Myers
2017-09-28 22:01 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-28 22:38 ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-29 11:04 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-30 6:35 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-30 21:42 ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 10:39 ` Andreas K. Huettel [this message]
2017-10-05 11:07 ` Florian Weimer
2017-10-05 12:54 ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 13:16 ` libcidn (was: Re: Remove add-ons mechanism) Andreas K. Huettel
2017-10-05 13:39 ` libcidn Andreas Schwab
2017-10-05 13:40 ` libcidn Florian Weimer
2017-10-05 21:11 ` Remove add-ons mechanism Andreas K. Huettel
2017-10-05 21:30 ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 15:59 ` Joseph Myers
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