Building for static linking isn't done correctly

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From: Greg A. Woods
Bugzilla-Id: 3135
Version: 2.1.x
Owner: Alexey Melnikov

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Attachment-Id: 1054
From: Greg A. Woods
Type: text/plain
File: auto+static.patch

fixes for autoconf and automake rules for mostly static builds

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From: Greg A. Woods

I was about to submit patches, but then thought I should search because I had a vague memory of sending something before. Obviously it was so long ago that I'd forgotten the details!

I was poking at the code again today and discovered yet another new problem had crept into the top-level Makefile.am, caused by rev 1.30 (for which I cannot find a corresponding bug report or proper explanation for -- it's bogus so far as I can tell).

There should be no dependency in "plugins" on any product file built in "lib", and at least fot he set of mechanisms I normally enable this is true.

However there very definitely is a dependency in "lib" on products built in the "plugins" directory, at least when building static-linked SASL libraries.

Note that the reasoning for prefering dynamically loadable mechanisms is kind of bogus. Nobody but a hacker would ever try to drop in a new authentication module into a running system and hope for it to work! It might be fine for testing and development work, but for secure prodcution systems anyone thinking straight will want to know exactly how their system can operate and they should be more than happy to install new software entirely and carefuly restart everything if they're going to add or remove something as important as an authentication mechanism.

I'll try and attach new patches to this bug report, but I don't find bugzilla very easy to use, so maybe I'll have to just send them to the list -- check the archives of cyrus-sasl in case there's nothing new here.

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Attachment-Id: 1447
From: Greg A. Woods
Type: text/plain
File: sasl-2.patch

fixes for static linking, etc.

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From: Alexey Melnikov

I will cherry-pick some changes from your patch, but I really dislike one mega-patch which contains unrelated changes. It takes ages to separate them.

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Attachment-Id: 1480
From: Alexey Melnikov
Type: text/plain
File: static.linking.and.stuff.bug.3135.diff.txt

Remaining changes mostly related to static linking

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static only builds do not compile

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See also #814 but this is a separate issue from what's going on there

[Neustradamus]

@robohack: It has been created by you in 2009, 16 years already!

@aamelnikov: This ticket has been taken by you and you have done 2009 -> 2012 patch versions.

What is the situation in 2025?

It blocks currently a new and important Cyrus-SASL version.

Thanks in advance.