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| author | Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> | 2018-06-29 16:53:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2018-06-29 16:53:47 +0200 |
| commit | e69d994a63afc2d367f286a2a7df28cbf710f0fe (patch) | |
| tree | 5786a275f401b02ced0269a4ec7b2e4e9f7537a8 /manual | |
| parent | 841785bad14dfad81a0af94900310141c59f26a4 (diff) | |
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 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/install.texi | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 4bbbfcffa5..422da1447e 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -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 |