From e69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zack Weinberg Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:53:47 +0200 Subject: 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. --- INSTALL | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'INSTALL') 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 -- cgit 1.4.1