Re: /bzr/squid3/trunk/ r10049: Use libcap functions instead of raw kernel interface

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:04:04 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> ons 2009-10-28 klockan 12:04 +1300 skrev Amos Jeffries:
>
>> * That should have been --with-cap2 right? same as all the others
>> ('lib'
>> being redundant and libcap2 being the official name for it as differs
>> from
>> libcap and libcap-ng).
>
> I disagree there.
>
> The official name of libcap-x.y is libcap, not cap or cap2. Source level
> API of libcap-1.x and libcap-2.x is the same, except that 2.x provides
> more functions and is not binary compatible with 1.x applications. It's
> a linear line of development from the same author.
>
> "all the others" is a very broad statement. We only have two other
> --with-<somelib> and it's --with-dl and --with-openssl.
>
> Official name of openssl is openssl, not libssl as Debian likes to call
> it..
>
> and dl do not really have a name of it's own, and is only known as -ldl
> to most. And can probably go away now that we have libtool adding
> similar tests..

Hmm. Okay.

Checking... fubar. Not sure where I got that idea.
I've fully buggered the docs on libexpat and libxml2. Fixing.

Amos
Received on Wed Oct 28 2009 - 01:38:45 MDT