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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
commite69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe (patch)
tree5786a275f401b02ced0269a4ec7b2e4e9f7537a8 /INSTALL
parent841785bad14dfad81a0af94900310141c59f26a4 (diff)
downloadglibc-e69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe.tar.gz
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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@@ -197,6 +197,17 @@ if 'CFLAGS' is specified it must enable optimization. For example:
libnss_nisplus are not built at all. Use this option to enable
libnsl with all depending NSS modules and header files.
+'--disable-crypt'
+ Do not install the passphrase-hashing library 'libcrypt' or the
+ header file 'crypt.h'. 'unistd.h' will still declare the function
+ 'crypt'. Using this option does not change the set of programs
+ that may need to be linked with '-lcrypt'; it only means that the
+ GNU C Library 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.
+
'--disable-experimental-malloc'
By default, a per-thread cache is enabled in 'malloc'. While this
cache can be disabled on a per-application basis using tunables