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authorZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2018-06-29 16:53:47 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-06-29 16:53:47 +0200
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New configure option --disable-crypt.
Some Linux distributions are experimenting with a new, separately maintained and hopefully more agile implementation of the crypt 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.
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@@ -230,6 +230,17 @@ libnss_nisplus are not built at all.
Use this option to enable libnsl with all depending NSS modules and
header files.
+@item --disable-crypt
+Do not install the passphrase-hashing library @file{libcrypt} or the
+header file @file{crypt.h}. @file{unistd.h} will still declare the
+function @code{crypt}. Using this option does not change the set of
+programs that may need to be linked with @option{-lcrypt}; it only
+means that @theglibc{} will not provide that library.
+
+This option is for hackers and distributions experimenting with
+independently-maintained implementations of libcrypt. It may become
+the default in a future release.
+
@item --disable-experimental-malloc
By default, a per-thread cache is enabled in @code{malloc}. While
this cache can be disabled on a per-application basis using tunables