dladdr() in fips.c and --enable-hmac-binary-check and --enable-static

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 02:09, burts at us.ibm.com said:
> One of our team members decided that he needed to create a program binary
> using static libraries, and he also decided to use the
> --enable-hmac-binary-check option. This combination of configure options
> will not work, because it exposes the dladdr() function call, and the

That option works only with glibc and shared objects - it was required
by a FIPS validated systems.  It is not portable.  I will add a source
comment to configure.ac to explain this.

> Can you eliminate the use of dladdr(), or come up with something that is
> less likely to trip up a novice? Perhaps it is ridiculous for him to be

Do not use features which are not described in README or in the manual
;-)


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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