Re: Concern about libtre and feature conflict

From: Daniel Black <daniel.subs_at_internode.on.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:19:01 +1100

On Monday 23 November 2009 17:11:01 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> Older versions of libtre called their functions regcomp(), regexec(), etc.
> in attempt to replace the system-provided ones. As of v0.8.0, libtre
> prefixes these with "tre_" to ensure no ambiguity.
>
> I'm a little concerned now that supporting older versions will mean some
> files in opendkim use the system-provided one while some files in
> libopendkim refer to the tre-provided one, and both link against the same
> libraries.

yes. i hadn't given it that much thought. Still needs a much closer look to
see if there really is a problem.

forcing to the tre version for both libopendkim/opendkim when detected/used
may remedy the problem.

just my tired ramblings (yawn). I'm probably missing lots of aspects.

Daniel
Received on Mon Nov 23 2009 - 13:20:08 PST