Author: ken
Date: 2012-01-04 13:05:25 -0700 (Wed, 04 Jan 2012)
New Revision: 9161
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/postlfs/security/nettle.xml
Log:
Allow people to use shared nettle libraries - our way of showing the
dependencies means that most users would not know that glib-networking uses the
nettle libs.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/postlfs/security/nettle.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/postlfs/security/nettle.xml 2012-01-04 19:02:24 UTC (rev
9160)
+++ trunk/BOOK/postlfs/security/nettle.xml 2012-01-04 20:05:25 UTC (rev
9161)
@@ -81,6 +81,20 @@
</sect2>
+ <sect2 role="commands">
+ <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+ <para><option>--enable-shared</option>: This switch will ensure
+ that shared, as well as static, libraries will be built. If you
+ have linked the packages which use these libraries
+ (<application>gnutls</application> and
+ <application>glib-networking</application>, perhaps others) to the
+ shared libraries, and ever have to rebuild
+ <application>libnettle</application> to fix a vulnerability, you
+ will not have to recompile those other applications.</para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
@@ -91,7 +105,8 @@
<seglistitem>
<seg>nettle-hash, nettle-lfib-stream, pkcs1-conv, and sexp-conv</seg>
- <seg>libhogweed.a and libnettle.a</seg>
+ <seg>libhogweed.a and libnettle.a : optionally, libhogweed.so and
+ libnettle.so</seg>
<seg>/usr/include/nettle</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
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