Re: [gentoo-dev] the state of dev-lang/lua

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Samstag, 23. März 2019, 22:23:27 CET schrieb William Hubbs:
> Hi all,
> 
> Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there
> are a couple of things I want to mention.
> 
> The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua
> internally in a program, upstream strongly recommends not linking it
> this way; it is supposed to be statically linked into the executable.
> Because of this, and because of the amount of custom patching we do to
> maintain liblua as a shared library, I plan to stop creating the shared
> library.
> 

Please dont. Static linking is a security nightmare.

I'd much rather consider removing the static library, and fix programs broken 
by that. (No matter what silly opinions lua upstream has.)

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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