From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 10:21:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: arch@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08F716A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:21:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua (tigra.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C3A43D49 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:21:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from localhost (rocky.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.2]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j58ALR2f069077; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:21:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua ([82.193.96.10]) by localhost (rocky.ipnet [82.193.96.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29666-04; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:21:26 +0300 (EEST) Received: from heffalump.ip.net.ua (heffalump.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.213]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j58ALQFc069073 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:21:26 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by heffalump.ip.net.ua (8.13.3/8.13.3) id j58ALrkL080447; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:21:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:21:53 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav Message-ID: <20050608102153.GA80141@ip.net.ua> References: <864qc9mgqc.fsf@xps.des.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <864qc9mgqc.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ip.net.ua Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Retiring static libpam support X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:21:31 -0000 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:48:27AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > Currently, libpam is built both dynamically (with modules in separate > files which it dlopen()s, like everybody else does) and statically > (with the modules compiled-in). This is a major headache, because the > static modules need to be built before the static library, but the > dynamic library needs to be built before the dynamic modules, so we > have quite a bit of magic (thanks ru!) to build libpam in two passes. > There's also quite a bit of highly non-portable magic in OpenPAM to > support static linkage. >=20 > The funny thing, though, is that nothing in our tree acutally uses the > static libpam (unless you have NO_SHARED=3D in make.conf). Therefore, > I'd like to remove the ability to build a static libpam altogether, > unless someone can come up with a very good reason not to. >=20 I give a strong "yes" vote. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCpsbBqRfpzJluFF4RAns1AJ9WLOW0Kum81YDWNAjTgyqrTKpxjQCfeRwY bJvb2h+u4Pul27jeJNpiIEA= =Owbr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--