[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH v3 00/10] Make the SDK relocatable

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >>> So if you change sudo's RPATH to $ORIGIN/../libexec/sudo it doesn't find
 >>> libsudo_util.so.0 at runtime? Or how does it break?
 >> 
 >> Yep, that's the problem. I think it's because of "For security, the
 >> dynamic linker does not allow use of $ORIGIN substitution sequences for
 >> set-user and set-group ID programs..." from
 >> 
 >> http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/257

Makes sense, you don't want your setuid binaries to load random
libraries.

 >  Ah I see. So in target we should always use absolute paths. Makes sense.

Indeed.

 >  Next week in the Buildroot Summer Camp I'm going to spend time on this series,
 > so there should be progress...

Indeed. I was also planning on spending some time on it.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard