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 dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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