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Alexander Dalloz wrote:
|Am Do, den 28.04.2005 schrieb Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina um 21:00: | |>>I'm trying to build a new package for sendmail. |>>Anyone know what the sendmail-8.12.9-dynamic.patch suppose to accomplish? |>>I see it wants to modify a Makefile and it looks like it removes |>>strerror.c form the list.... but there are too many files listed there |>>to be exactly sure. |> |>Google tells it is a security patch: |>http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t=9797 | | |That is something different and fixed long ago. | |>May be you should also ask on the sendmail Mailing list? | | |http://www.fiveanddime.net/sendmail-8.13.4-files-and-documentation/libsm/strerror.c.html | |https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-cvs-commits/2005-April/msg00586.html | |Frankly, I don't know what's the reason for removing strerror.c from the |Sendmail building process. | |Alexander | | Thanks Alexander,
I couldn't find a connection between the security patch and this patch.
This one patches `/devtools/OS/Linux' with an `-fpie' option for all the `confOPTIMIZE' defines, then takes out the one file strerror.c from the /libsm/Makefile.m4 file.
I can only guess that the -fpie option doesn't need the strerror.c file in the library for libsm. Or FC1 already has a library file elsewhere that has a strerror() function.
James
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