Hi all
I have installed libgcrypt as described in the BLFS and it generally
works fine.
When I later installed cryptsetup (from
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup), I realized it was using gcrypt.
The thing now is: lfs suggests quite consistently to put libraries and
binaries used for early boot stuff in /lib, /bin and /sbin. If
cryptsetup is used in early boot, to mount an encrypted /usr for
instance, this would fail, as libgcrypt and libgpg-error lie on /usr.
So, it might be advisable to add the commands to move that stuff to /lib.
In consistency with Bruce's lfs commands this would be for gcrypt:
mv -v /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.* /lib
ln -sf ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so) /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so
and for gpg-error:
mv -v /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.* /lib
ln -sf ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so)
/usr/lib/libgpg-error.so
The bin stuff could stay on /usr, as it won't be needed in early boot.
On a minor note: It could be mentioned that adding "--with-capabilities"
to configure will produce a gcrypt library that ultimately will prevent
cryptsetup from handling plain dm-crypt devices. Took me quite a while
to find out....
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