| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 7.2b2 "make check" failure on Red Hat Linux 7.2 |
| Date: | 2001-11-18 20:40:12 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0111181819140.613-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes:
> When you install (not configure for, just install) into a separate tree
> (for easier packaging), it's a hole which can be exploited - some packages
> will rpath into /var/tmp/<foo>, for instance. Hackers can then put their
> own library there.
"Some packages"... ;-)
> One big offender here is perl's automatic module
> creation script which will change the rpaths from what you told it when
> you built it to what you do when you install it.
This should be fixed now, although the perl module will actually not obey
the --disable-rpath switch. Can't have everything, I guess...
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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