#5280 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add libxcrypt and use it instead of Glibc libcrypt
| Reported by: | Xi Ruoyao | Owned by: | Xi Ruoyao |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 12.0 |
| Component: | Book | Version: | git |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
Glibc developers consider Glibc libcrypt implementation deprecated, and libcrypt may be disabled by default in Glibc-2.38 (a patch is under review now).
As libcrypt is security-related, it seems a bad idea to override the upstream decision and stick with the deprecated implementation. Many distros has already switched to libxcrypt for providing libcrypt.so.
We can add libxcrypt immediately before shadow, which is the first package in LFS using libcrypt.
Change History (7)
comment:2 by , 10 months ago
Replying to Xi Ruoyao:
Oh-oh, Perl links to libcrypt.so as well so maybe we need to build libxcrypt in Chapter 7 before Perl. Or maybe we can find a way to disable it for Chapter 7 Perl.
The dependency for Perl is optional. In Chapter 6 we need to disable libsanitizer for GCC pass 2 because building libsanitizer needs the header of libcrypt.
The work is done in the xry111/libxcrypt branch.
comment:3 by , 10 months ago
I'd merge the branch into trunk in mid July if no objection, for sorting things out before Glibc-2.38 update.
comment:5 by , 10 months ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:6 by , 10 months ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Fixed at r11.3-130-g48834cf19:
- 48834cf19 (Merge branch 'xry111/libxcrypt' into trunk, 2023-07-03)
- 9ceb62340 (Package update, 2023-07-03)
- ac5f78c4b (Merge branch 'trunk' into xry111/libxcrypt, 2023-07-02)
- 1adc94143 (dependencies: Add Libxcrypt dependency info, 2023-06-30)
- f652d5bb2 (gcc-pass2: Disable libsanitizer, 2023-06-30)
- c727d7e7f (Add libxcrypt, 2023-06-30)
- bbfb090d2 (glibc: Disable obsolete libcrypt implementation, 2023-06-30)
Oh-oh, Perl links to libcrypt.so as well so maybe we need to build libxcrypt in Chapter 7 before Perl. Or maybe we can find a way to disable it for Chapter 7 Perl.