Le ven. 26 janv. 2024, 20:50, Daniel Kiper <dki...@net-space.pl> a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 03:18:57AM -0500, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou > wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM Daniel Kiper <dki...@net-space.pl> > wrote: > > > > > > Adding Vladimir who knows GRUB history better than I... > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 01:23:55AM -0500, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou > wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > My apologies for the repeated messages, but I came up with just one > > > > more question that I'm curious about. To summarize my questions: > > > > > > > > 1. Where is the libgcrypt bundle from grub from? I think my > > > > investigation has led me around version 1.7.0 of libgcrypt, but if I > > > > can get a precise commit or version, that would be useful. > > > > > > > > ... and now to my new question: > > > > > > Vladimir, could you help with that? > > > > > > > 2. What is the reason libgcrypt is bundled as opposed to a regular > dependency? > > > > > > I am not entirely sure I understand the question. Could you elaborate? > > > > By bundling, I mean that someone copied libgcrypt files into the GRUB > project. > > > > To elaborate further, regular programs (not like GRUB which is a > > bootloader) can link statically or dynamically to libraries; but also, > > there's a third option, to dump the source code of a library directly > > into the source tree of the project. To my understanding this third > > option (which is not really a third linker option as it is not related > > to the linker) is chosen when the project needs to include its own > > patch set to the library. I am curious if GRUB has patched libgcrypt > > for some reason, and is that why libgcrypt is bundled with GRUB? > > I think Vladimir could tell us more here... > > Anyway, I think we should avoid patching libgcrypt, or any given library > merged with GRUB source, as much as possible. > This was my goal as well. Almost all the changes are difficult to avoid. But at least they are automated in most cases. See import_gcry script. I'm not on my computer now. I hope to find a time to have a look until the end of next week. > > Daniel >
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