Changeset e0850a7 for chapter08

Timestamp:

06/09/2024 10:30:21 PM (3 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib

Children:

7f3f152

Parents:

30d408c (diff), 2ef9bea (diff)
Note: this is a merge changeset, the changes displayed below correspond to the merge itself.
Use the (diff) links above to see all the changes relative to each parent.

Message:

Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

Location:

chapter08

Files:

• expect.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• readline.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• tcl.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/expect.xml

@@ -77 +77 @@
             --with-tcl=/usr/lib     \
             --enable-shared         \
+            --disable-rpath         \
             --mandir=/usr/share/man \
             --with-tclinclude=/usr/include</userinput></screen>

chapter08/readline.xml

@@ -50 +50 @@
 sed -i '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' support/shlib-install</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>Prevent hard coding library search paths (rpath) into
+    the shared libraries.  This package does not need rpath for an
+    installation into the standard location, and rpath may sometimes cause
+    unwanted effects or even security issues:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/-Wl,-rpath,[^ ]*//' support/shobj-conf</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Now fix a problem identified upstream:</para>
 

chapter08/tcl.xml

@@ -56 +56 @@
 cd unix
 ./configure --prefix=/usr           \
-            --mandir=/usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
+            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
+            --disable-rpath</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the new configure parameters:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--disable-rpath</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This parameter prevents hard coding library search paths
+          (rpath) into the binary executable files and shared libraries.
+          This package does not need rpath for an installation into the
+          standard location, and rpath may sometimes cause unwanted effects
+          or even security issues.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
 
     <para>Build the package:</para>