Re: tcb source

From: Joachim Blaabjerg (styx@private)
Date: Thu Nov 28 2002 - 11:17:15 PST


On Wednesday 27 November 2002 16:55, Solar Designer wrote:
> It's not anywhere on FTP, but when you build Owl, you get a tarball
> under ~build/archives/
>
> david!build:~$ ls -l archives/tcb-0.9.8.3.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----    1 build    sources     35776 Oct 31 19:06
> archives/tcb-0.9.8.3.tar.gz
>
> The main reason we don't put it out separately is that it depends on
> some of our other stuff, primarily the password hashing framework
> introduced with crypt_blowfish, in glibc.
>
> It also assumes *BSD-like behavior of asprintf(3) on errors, which is
> guaranteed with our glibc, but not with official glibc.

Okay, I'll patch up the needed software. Btw, do you mind if I use tcb and 
some of the other Owl patches in Gentoo Linux? All credit will be given where 
it is due, of course.

> Perhaps I should make a "tcb" page on www.openwall.com and describe
> the requirements there.  Then it could also host tarballs.

Tarballs would at least make things a lot easier... The only alternative for 
me now is to grab the tarball from the build archive and put it on Ibiblio. 
Some authorative source would be preferable to a third party mirror.

Best Regards,



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