Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> skribis: > On Sun 30 Aug 2015 21:46, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> The binary format for locales is dependent on the libc version. Over >> the last few releases, it turned out to be compatible, but that of 2.22 >> differs from that of 2.21 (a new element was added to locale categories, >> according to ChangeLog.) > > Does this amount to a binary-incompatible change to libc? I guess not > if you make sure that if you had a statically linked binary, that you > set LOCPATH appropriately.... > > What if we built bootstrap binaries to statically link their LOCPATH ? > Is that even possible?
I don’t think locale data can be embedded in binaries. Also, it’s a good strategy to avoid rebuilding the bootstrap binaries as much as possible, as it intuitively suggests that a Thompson attack is unlikely. Ludo’.
