SuSE Security Announcement
Package: sendmail, sendmail-tls Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2003:023
When I patched and recompiled sendmail-8.11.3-106 (for SuSE 7.2) yesterday, I noticed that my sendmail binary was 50% smaller than the version supplied by SuSE (this applies to the current update, too); I *think* libssl and libcrypt are linked statically in the SuSE version - is this true? And if it is - why?
It's not these two, it's /usr/lib/libldap.a and /usr/lib/liblber.a that are linked statically. The newer distributions are linked dynamically agaist these libraries, the older ones have tradeoffs. The reason for the static linking is based on dependencies between packages. Building the packages can have circular dependencies, which makes it a bit difficult at times...
Martin
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