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Am Samstag, 23. März 2019, 22:23:27 CET schrieb William Hubbs: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there |
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> are a couple of things I want to mention. |
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> The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua |
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> internally in a program, upstream strongly recommends not linking it |
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> this way; it is supposed to be statically linked into the executable. |
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> Because of this, and because of the amount of custom patching we do to |
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> maintain liblua as a shared library, I plan to stop creating the shared |
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> library. |
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Please dont. Static linking is a security nightmare. |
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I'd much rather consider removing the static library, and fix programs broken |
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by that. (No matter what silly opinions lua upstream has.) |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |
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