libsignon-plugins is not a dynamic library
Bug #1212705 reported by
dobey
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| signon (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
In order to write a signon plug-in to provide integration with a new authentication method, one must use the libsignon-plugins library, which provides some interfaces that must be used. However, this library is currently built and installed as a static library only, which means every plug-in that links to it, includes the entire library within the plug-in. This causes an increase in size of of the plug-ins, and requires that they all must be rebuilt, in the event a security issue is discovered and fixed, in the library.
This library needs to be built and packaged as a dynamic library instead.
Related branches
lp://qastaging/~dobey/signon/dynamic-plugins-lib
- Alberto Mardegan (community): Disapprove
- PS Jenkins bot (community): Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
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Diff: 68 lines (+18/-2)5 files modifieddebian/changelog (+5/-0)
debian/control (+9/-0)
debian/libsignon-plugins1.install (+2/-0)
debian/signon-plugins-dev.install (+1/-1)
lib/plugins/signon-plugins.pro (+1/-1)
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| dobey (dobey) wrote | #1 |
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| Alberto Mardegan (mardy) wrote | #2 |
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This results in it also being impossible to write tests for a plug-in one is writing, as it seems to result in nasty errors from ld:
/usr/bin/ld: test-signon-plugin: local symbol `_ZN19AuthPlugi
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
This is happening when attempting to build lp:~dobey/ubuntuone-credentials/signon-tests
I see there are tests in signon-