Hi Aleks, On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 11:14:35AM +0200, Aleksandar Lazic wrote: > Hi. > > I have seen this lines in the current glibc release notes > > https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.38 > ``` > 2.1. Building libcrypt is disabled by default > > If you still need Glibc libcrypt, pass --enable-crypt to the configure > script. > > Note that libcrypt may be removed completely in future Glibc releases. > Distributions are encouraged to provide libcrypt via libxcrypt[1], instead > of relying on Glibc libcrypt. > ``` > > The libxcrypt page mention to be backward compatible but we should keep an > eye on this, IMHO.
Yeah I've read exactly the same :-) I suspect it will not change anything and that libxcrypt will provide a libcrypt (unless it really wants to break all userspace but it wouldn't be the first time we see something like this anyway, libc5->libc6 was a total disaster). > Regards > Alex > > [1] https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt Thanks! Willy
