Author: Andreas Metzler Date: To: exim-dev Subject: [Exim-dev] Re: libpcre dependencies [was Re: Bug reporting and monitoring]
On 2004-06-25 Nico Erfurth <masta@???> wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > >- It makes security updates a PITA. If there ever is a security
> > problem in pcre you'll need to issue updates for every package
> > statically linking against it, instead of just for the library
> > package. There wa a problem in zlib about a year ago iirc that
> > nicely illustated this. > Exim ALWAYS links against its own pcre library, and Philip also suggests
> that.
I *think* the last recent remark of Phil on this issue was different,
but I might mix things up.
> So, unless you patched around to make it link against a system
> installed libpcre, the dependency is useless.
