[PATCH] New configure option --disable-crypt.

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jun 25 13:47:00 GMT 2018


On 06/25/2018 03:44 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> From: Zack Weinberg<zackw@panix.com>
> 
> Some Linux distributions are experimenting with a new, separately
> maintained and hopefully more agile implementation of the crypt(3)
> API.  To facilitate this, add a configure option which disables
> glibc's embedded libcrypt.  When this option is given, libcrypt.*
> and crypt.h will not be built nor installed.
> 
> unistd.h continues to define _XOPEN_CRYPT to 1 and to declare crypt.

This is of course no longer true, it was removed in the first patch 
("New configure option --disable-crypt.").

Florian



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