On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:59 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/14/08, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Upstream vulnerability fix, our ref FS#10121, additional info here: > > > https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html > > > Also, man path amended. > > > > > > In testing now for both arches. > > > > Looks good on i686. > > Maybe I spoke too soon. The program itself works fine, but linking > against it is doing some really weird things. It seems that things are > getting statically included now or something? I'm not completely sure > what is going on, but my binaries for my pacman-git build went from > 14K to 140K, and the strings output on the old vs. the new is showing > a lot of BZ2 crud, which I've attached below (I sorted it so > before/after would be as similar as possible).
I don't see how this could relate, really, unless it has pkgconfig files that suddenly have "-static" added to the CFLAGS. As far as I'm aware, a library can't control how things link to it. Would you mind comparing to something else that makes use of bzip2?

