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author | Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> | 2018-06-29 16:53:47 +0200 |
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committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2018-06-29 16:53:47 +0200 |
commit | e69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe (patch) | |
tree | 5786a275f401b02ced0269a4ec7b2e4e9f7537a8 /INSTALL | |
parent | 841785bad14dfad81a0af94900310141c59f26a4 (diff) | |
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New configure option --disable-crypt.
Some Linux distributions are experimenting with a new, separately maintained and hopefully more agile implementation of the crypt API. To facilitate this, add a configure option which disables glibc's embedded libcrypt. When this option is given, libcrypt.* and crypt.h will not be built nor installed.
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 052b1b6f89..0a22aa7d01 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -197,6 +197,17 @@ if 'CFLAGS' is specified it must enable optimization. For example: libnss_nisplus are not built at all. Use this option to enable libnsl with all depending NSS modules and header files. +'--disable-crypt' + Do not install the passphrase-hashing library 'libcrypt' or the + header file 'crypt.h'. 'unistd.h' will still declare the function + 'crypt'. Using this option does not change the set of programs + that may need to be linked with '-lcrypt'; it only means that the + GNU C Library will not provide that library. + + This option is for hackers and distributions experimenting with + independently-maintained implementations of libcrypt. It may + become the default in a future release. + '--disable-experimental-malloc' By default, a per-thread cache is enabled in 'malloc'. While this cache can be disabled on a per-application basis using tunables |