Re: Build-Depends
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:32:01PM +0100, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote:
> > joost once told me that he believed that putting a wrapper around just
> > the open and exec* calls should be safe; it was just that all of the
> > functionality of libtricks together made it too much and caused
> > breakages.
> >
>
> That is what auto-apt seems to do. It wrapps open, open64, execv*, and also
> "access", and some weird (for me) *xstat* functions.
>
> OTOH, Ben's dpkg-genbuilddeps handles the vfork problem mentioned
> before wrapping vfork and actually using the fork system call from it,
> so it should be safer than using a plain strace, I guess.
Oh, cool! I didn't realise it was so clever.
Ben, is there any chance of fixing the lintian errors and uploading it
into the distribution? There's one little nasty feature, though:
there's no ability currently to use fakeroot. That should be
implemented; I'd prefer not to run builds as root. And of course the
tmp file is insecure. But besides that, it's really cool!
Julian
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