On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM Daniel Kiper <dki...@net-space.pl> wrote: > > Adding Vladimir who knows GRUB history better than I... > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 01:23:55AM -0500, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou wrote: > > [...] > > > My apologies for the repeated messages, but I came up with just one > > more question that I'm curious about. To summarize my questions: > > > > 1. Where is the libgcrypt bundle from grub from? I think my > > investigation has led me around version 1.7.0 of libgcrypt, but if I > > can get a precise commit or version, that would be useful. > > > > ... and now to my new question: > > Vladimir, could you help with that? > > > 2. What is the reason libgcrypt is bundled as opposed to a regular > > dependency? > > I am not entirely sure I understand the question. Could you elaborate?
By bundling, I mean that someone copied libgcrypt files into the GRUB project. To elaborate further, regular programs (not like GRUB which is a bootloader) can link statically or dynamically to libraries; but also, there's a third option, to dump the source code of a library directly into the source tree of the project. To my understanding this third option (which is not really a third linker option as it is not related to the linker) is chosen when the project needs to include its own patch set to the library. I am curious if GRUB has patched libgcrypt for some reason, and is that why libgcrypt is bundled with GRUB? Regards, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
