On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:17, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With current 2.3 glibc, setxattr and other functions from libattr
> are already included in libc.so.6. So linking against libattr is
> useless, the symbols from libc.so.6 are always prefered.
>
> I don't know what the policy about automake/autoconf/libtool are,
> but this was the easiest solution to build libselinux against plain
> libc or add libattr.
>
> I have attached my patch for using autoconf/libtool and patches
> building libselinux only against libc, not libattr.
>
> Comments?

Thanks for writing this patch, but I'm not presently inclined to take it, except possibly to change the includes to use <sys/xattr.h> rather than <attr/xattr.h>. autoconf/libtool seems a bit overkill for libselinux. It seems reasonable to require people to use a modern glibc (>= 2.3) and to have built it against kernel headers >= 2.4.20 (where xattr API was merged into mainline), so I'll likely just make the transition and people who need to build with an older glibc or older kernel headers will just need to patch it to use libattr.   

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency


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