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Re: RFC: convenience copy of cddlib



On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:07:26AM -0400, bremner@unb.ca wrote:
> 
> I see two solutions so far:
> 
> 1) patch the debian cddlib package to produce a third library,
>    libcdd_gmp (or whatever) that can be linked together with
>    libcdd. This basically migrates the polymake abi changes to the
>    debian package, and maybe eventually upstream.
> 
> 2) just use the convenience copy. I wouldn't be so foolish as to
>    promise that there will never be a security problem in cddlib, but
>    it seems relatively low risk.  No network access, for example.
> 

3) Use versioned symbols for the internal library to avoid conflicts
with the external one.

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/coldfire/gcc-doc/docs/ld_25.html

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine


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