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Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2017, 19:49:28 CEST schrieb Joseph Myers: > glibc has an add-ons mechanism to allow additional software to be > integrated into the glibc build. [...] > libidn used to have separate release tarballs > but no longer does so, but still uses the add-ons mechanism within the > glibc source tree. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libidn.git;a=shortlog Doesn't look dead to me; actually the libidn inside glibc looks way outdated (before 2012 I think). See also https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22247 [CVE-2017-14062 : Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in puny_decode.c in libidn] > Various other software has supported building with > the add-ons mechanism at times in the past, but I don't think any is > still widely used. > libidn is now built via the Subdirs mechanism to cause any > configuration using sysdeps/unix/inet to build libidn; HAVE_LIBIDN > (which effectively means shared libraries are available) is now > defined via sysdeps/unix/inet/configure. -- PD Dr. Andreas K. Hüttel Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics University of Regensburg 93040 Regensburg Germany tel. +49 941 943 1618 (office) tel. +49 151 241 67748 (mobile) e-mail andreas.huettel@ur.de http://www.akhuettel.de/ http://www.physik.uni-r.de/forschung/huettel/
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