On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:58:47 -0600 (CST) Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > I upgraded to libtool 2 the other day and was hit by this bug again. > > Has there been any work on fixing this rather large hole in the preload > > functionality? > > Did someone say 'hole'? > > Can you please summarize the issue again to refresh our memory? > > Any solution needs to be fully secure, even if the underlying OS is > not as secure as it should be. > Heh, "hole" as in "missing functionality", not as in "security hole" so no need to get overly excited. :) What I meant was the missing ability to use preloading to get rid of extra files (getting rid of the .so files in favour of .la files is not really a win in my book). As I said in my follow-up mail though, that ability seems to be there in the current libtool release, but it has a bug that messes up things for me (the name mangling). (The original thread/issue is therefore rather irrelevant now) Rgds -- Pierre Ossman OpenSource-based Thin Client Technology System Developer Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com
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