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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bindnow-flags going the way of the dodo
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 11:13:07
Message-Id: 1209899581.3017.5.camel@su.perronet.esiee.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] bindnow-flags going the way of the dodo by Mike Frysinger
1 Le lundi 23 juillet 2007 à 01:24 -0400, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
2 > for people who maintain a package which utilizes bindnow-flags(), please feel
3 > free to modify the ebuild to no longer use this or append any such ldflags.
4 > the logic for handling set*id bindings is the business of the ldso (aka
5 > glibc), not for ebuilds.
6 >
7 > for example, if your ebuild does:
8 > inherit flag-o-matic
9 > ...
10 > append-ldflags $(bindnow-flags)
11 > ...
12 >
13 > the fix here is to simply delete those lines (assuming you're not using any
14 > other flag related functions of course).
15 > -mike
16
17 I guess that also means that patches appending such flags should be
18 dropped ?
19
20 In that case can we get an updated documentation ?
21 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/contribute/?part=1&chap=3
22
23 That will avoid you telling I'm stupid for not remembering something
24 that dates back 10 months ago (bug #218925 for the curious).
25 --
26 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
27 Gentoo

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