Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:47:03 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: asami@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <12193.843227223@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:27:13 %2B1000." <199609201327.XAA17325@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199609201327.XAA17325@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>>might not have /sbin in $PATH. md5 is in /sbin because it might be useful >>>for checking security before mounting /usr. I don't like having absolute >>>paths anywhere in the build. >> >>And because we don't want it to be compromised by a bogus shared library. > >No, the `s' in `sbin' stands for `system', not for `static'. md5 could be >linked static wherever it is installed. My md5 is linked shared anyway: > > md5: > -lc.3 => /lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x801b000) > >and libc is slightly harder to compromise than md5: LD_LIBRARY_PATH ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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