Re: Fwd: glibc[-crypt] missing Makefile.non-gnu

[Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>]

> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:20:17 -0800
> From: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
> Cc: 23468-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 23468-forwarded@bugs.debian.org

> In trying to bring up the arm environment, I had need of a working
> libcrypt, but I couldn't build it because Makefile.non.gnu (or anything
> vaguely resemlbing that name) wasn't available. [This file is documented
> in a number of places, for example crypt/configure.]

> I think either Makefile.non-gnu should be made available in the crypt 
> add-on, or the references to it should be removed.

I will correct this by removing the references.  I don't have a
"Makefile.non-gnu" (or even a "Makefile.non.gnu") available, it would
be somewhat tricky to write because libcrypt.so.6 includes md5-crypt,
which is part of the main glibc distribution not the package.

It would be particularly bad to have a system with md5-based
passwords, compile libcrypt.so without support for them, and install
it; your system would be unusable.

The first version with this change will be numbered 2.0.108.

Note that the linuxthreads README also claims it can be built
standalone; is this still correct for the version that is a libc
add-on?

-- 
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>