diff options
| author | Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> | 2018-06-29 16:53:47 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2018-06-29 16:53:47 +0200 |
| commit | e69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe (patch) | |
| tree | 5786a275f401b02ced0269a4ec7b2e4e9f7537a8 /NEWS | |
| parent | 841785bad14dfad81a0af94900310141c59f26a4 (diff) | |
| download | glibc-e69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe.zip glibc-e69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe.tar.gz glibc-e69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe.tar.bz2 | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -133,6 +133,18 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt, and it has not appeared in any header file in many years. +* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing + library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope, + keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue + to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or + 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will + need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project. + + In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc + will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate + project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default + behavior in a future release. + Changes to build and runtime requirements: [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here] |