GNU bug report logs - #30006
bzip2 does not provide libbz2.so

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Message #23 received at 30006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 30006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30006: bzip2 does not provide libbz2.so
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:54:46 +0100

Hey Marius,

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Our current bzip2 package does not provide libbz2.so:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ ls $(guix build bzip2)/lib
>> libbz2.a  libbz2.so.1.0  libbz2.so.1.0.6
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Consequently, software that uses libbz2 always ends up
>> statically-linking it.  Thus, security issues in libbz2 cannot be
>> grafted.
>
> WDYT of this patch?
>
> From 1eec25f2aad3d20289ced4fbca9a614f6d614fa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:56:45 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: bzip2: Provide libbz2.so.
>
> Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/30006>.
>
> * gnu/packages/compression.scm (bzip2)[arguments]: In
> INSTALL-SHARED-LIBS-PHASE, add a symlink.

LGTM, thank you!

Ludo’.

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