Proposed F19 Feature: GLIBC 2.17

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:09:51PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> nss_hesiod needs secure_getenv, so a non-private symbol is needed.
> In any case, I can link against __libc_secure_getenv in Fedora
> rawhide:
> 
> <mock-chroot>[root at oldenburg tmp]# rpm -q glibc
> glibc-2.17-1.fc19.x86_64
> <mock-chroot>[root at oldenburg tmp]# cat t.c
> void __libc_secure_getenv();
> 
> int main()
> {
>   __libc_secure_getenv();
>   return 0;
> }
> <mock-chroot>[root at oldenburg tmp]# gcc t.c
> <mock-chroot>[root at oldenburg tmp]#

You can link against it, but rpm won't let you package it.
nss_hesiod certainly shouldn't use __libc_secure_getenv, because it
is glibc internal symbol, it
IMHO should use dlvsym or dlsym from libc.so.6* on __secure_getenv resp.
secure_getenv.

	Jakub