[lxc-devel] Building without libcap2?

Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru
Fri Dec 17 23:49:26 UTC 2010


18.12.2010 00:12, Michael Tokarev wrote:
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> Capabilities (libcap2) is a tiny library (on my i386
> userspace it's just a 13Kb shared object), it has _no_
> external dependencies whatsoever - neither at build nor
> at run time (it does not use perl for one)

And this is, in turn, incorrect.  libcap2 does use
perl at build time, in order to create list of
currently defined capabilities from linux/capability.h.
Two trivial inline perl scripts which are not
architecture-dependent.

/mjt




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