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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:47:03 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk 
Message-ID:  <12193.843227223@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:27:13 %2B1000." <199609201327.XAA17325@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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In message <199609201327.XAA17325@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>>might not have /sbin in $PATH.  md5 is in /sbin because it might be useful
>>>for checking security before mounting /usr.  I don't like having absolute
>>>paths anywhere in the build.
>>
>>And because we don't want it to be compromised by a bogus shared library.
>
>No, the `s' in `sbin' stands for `system', not for `static'.  md5 could be
>linked static wherever it is installed.  My md5 is linked shared anyway:
>
>	md5:
>		-lc.3 => /lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x801b000)
>
>and libc is slightly harder to compromise than md5:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH ?

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