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Re: [gpsd-dev] chrpath dependency
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] chrpath dependency |
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Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:18:30 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Christian Gagneraud <address@hidden>:
> I just started on that one, it was actually easy to do (see attached patch).
> So now things get built correctly but the tests using gpsfake are
> broken for some reasons I still ignore (I got connection
> refused[1]).
Unrelated bug in the Python test stuff, now fixed.
> Now I'm writing this email because I think this is all going
> nowhere, i'm not sure it is worth spending time on the connection
> refused problem given the fact that gpsfake invoke gpsd, which is
> still dynamically linked, and as such defeat the purpose of this
> idea (get rid of chrpath by using statically linkage).
>
> My opinion is that Eric "may be over-optimizing a bit here." when it
> comes to security (I had to make it, sorry! ;))
The demand fo that security fix came from the Debian project, not me.
> Maybe the solution is to make chrpath a hard dependency, scons fails
> if it is not detected, and get rid of all the static stuff in
> SConstruct
I tried that at one point. It made some distribution packagers very
unhappy.
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Re: [gpsd-dev] chrpath dependency, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate, 2013/11/25
Re: [gpsd-dev] chrpath dependency, Greg Troxel, 2013/11/22