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Re: relocatable by default?
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: relocatable by default? |
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Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:30:12 +0200 |
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Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hmm, that's too bad. If it's not done by default there's little chance
> it'll actually be used, especially in distributions.
Distributions are well served without --enable-relocatable. The people for
whom --enable-relocatable are useful are IMO
- maintainers of a package who decide to provide binaries, for users'
convenience,
- users who want to share installed programs with some other users.
> What security issues, by the way? I (re)read the docs but I don't see
> what it is.
No no, I won't tell anyone how the exploit works :-) But there is an exploit.
Bruno