[Unbound-users] unbound daemon linking bug?

[Matthijs Mekking]

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Hi Paul,

On 10/06/2011 04:55 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Matthijs Mekking wrote:
> 
>> I don't fully grasp your problem: if unbound does not link against
>> libunbound, upgrading the unbound package would not need to update the
>> libunbound package.
> 
> But if a fix is applied to unbound-libs, the unbound daemon will still
> be using an old copy. Also, the results of unbound vs unbound-host could
> then be different.

Seems to me that this is a thing that the package maintainer should
maintain.

> 
> As a rule, it is always bad to have duplicatated staticly linked code
> from a dynamic library into any executable - it becomes unmanagable.
> 
> To avoid this, I will make unbound depend on unbound-libs of the identical
> version so that we keep the daemon and libraries in sync with each other.
> 
>> It is of course possible to use the library dynamically, but probably
>> unbound links statically for performance optimization reasons.
> 
> Can you explain those to me?

Dynamic linking *may* increase paging thus decreasing performance.

> 
> Paul

- --enable-allsymbols is indeed what you want.

Best regards,

Matthijs
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