[gentoo-dev] bindnow-flags going the way of the dodo

[gentoo-dev] bindnow-flags going the way of the dodo

[Mike Frysinger]

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for people who maintain a package which utilizes bindnow-flags(), please feel 
free to modify the ebuild to no longer use this or append any such ldflags.  
the logic for handling set*id bindings is the business of the ldso (aka 
glibc), not for ebuilds.

for example, if your ebuild does:
inherit flag-o-matic
...
append-ldflags $(bindnow-flags)
...

the fix here is to simply delete those lines (assuming you're not using any 
other flag related functions of course).
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] bindnow-flags going the way of the dodo

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

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Le lundi 23 juillet 2007 à 01:24 -0400, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
> for people who maintain a package which utilizes bindnow-flags(), please feel 
> free to modify the ebuild to no longer use this or append any such ldflags.  
> the logic for handling set*id bindings is the business of the ldso (aka 
> glibc), not for ebuilds.
> 
> for example, if your ebuild does:
> inherit flag-o-matic
> ...
> append-ldflags $(bindnow-flags)
> ...
> 
> the fix here is to simply delete those lines (assuming you're not using any 
> other flag related functions of course).
> -mike

I guess that also means that patches appending such flags should be
dropped ?

In that case can we get an updated documentation ?
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/contribute/?part=1&chap=3

That will avoid you telling I'm stupid for not remembering something
that dates back 10 months ago (bug #218925 for the curious).
-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
Gentoo

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