Changeset f37eef8b

Timestamp:

01/04/2012 08:05:25 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, ken/inkscape-core-mods, krejzi/svn, lazarus, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226

Children:

d171ac04

Parents:

e83b714

Message:

Allow people to use shared nettle libraries - our way of showing the dependencies means that most users would not know that glib-networking uses the nettle libs.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@9161 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• postlfs/security/nettle.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

postlfs/security/nettle.xml

@@ -82 +82 @@
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2 role="commands">
+    <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para><option>--enable-shared</option>: This switch will ensure
+    that shared, as well as static, libraries will be built. If you
+    have linked the packages which use these libraries
+    (<application>gnutls</application> and
+    <application>glib-networking</application>, perhaps others) to the
+    shared libraries, and ever have to rebuild
+    <application>libnettle</application> to fix a vulnerability, you
+    will not have to recompile those other applications.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
   <sect2 role="content">
     <title>Contents</title>
@@ -92 +106 @@
       <seglistitem>
         <seg>nettle-hash, nettle-lfib-stream, pkcs1-conv, and sexp-conv</seg>
-        <seg>libhogweed.a  and libnettle.a</seg>
+        <seg>libhogweed.a and libnettle.a : optionally, libhogweed.so and
+        libnettle.so</seg>
         <seg>/usr/include/nettle</seg>
       </seglistitem>