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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com> on 1996/10/24 01:35:30 UTC

Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "md5c.o routines conflict with libdce.a" on OSF/1

Hi,

We'll see what can be done.

regards,
rob

pbhenson@csupomona.edu wrote:
>
>Submitter: pbhenson@csupomona.edu
>Operating system: OSF/1, version: 4.0
>Version of Apache Used: 1.1+
>Extra Modules used: mod_auth_dce
>URL exhibiting problem: 
>
>Symptoms:
>--
>I'm developing a module to allow DCE authentication
>for Apache. I was having a strange problem which I
>finally traced to md5c.o, which contains MD5
>routines. Routines of the exact same name exist
>in libdce.a, and linking with md5c.o caused routines
>in libdce.a to call the local MD5 routines instead
>of the libdce ones.
>
>I was wondering if it would be possible in a future
>release of Apache to change the names in md5c.c
>to include a local prefix, such as apache_? That
>way they won't conflict with any other MD5 routines
>in system libraries...
>
>Thanks...
>
>--
>
>Backtrace:
>--
>
>--
>


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Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com)    
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Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "md5c.o routines conflict with libdce.a" on OSF/1

Posted by Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>.
Sameer asked "Haven't we already done that?".

md5.h in the current snapshot seems to indicate not.  Is there a problem with
prefixing the functions with apache_?  Is there a better way to do this?

	Brian

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Rob Hartill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We'll see what can be done.
> 
> regards,
> rob
> 
> pbhenson@csupomona.edu wrote:
> >
> >Submitter: pbhenson@csupomona.edu
> >Operating system: OSF/1, version: 4.0
> >Version of Apache Used: 1.1+
> >Extra Modules used: mod_auth_dce
> >URL exhibiting problem: 
> >
> >Symptoms:
> >--
> >I'm developing a module to allow DCE authentication
> >for Apache. I was having a strange problem which I
> >finally traced to md5c.o, which contains MD5
> >routines. Routines of the exact same name exist
> >in libdce.a, and linking with md5c.o caused routines
> >in libdce.a to call the local MD5 routines instead
> >of the libdce ones.
> >
> >I was wondering if it would be possible in a future
> >release of Apache to change the names in md5c.c
> >to include a local prefix, such as apache_? That
> >way they won't conflict with any other MD5 routines
> >in system libraries...
> >
> >Thanks...
> >
> >--
> >
> >Backtrace:
> >--
> >
> >--
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com)    
> http://www.imdb.com/  ... why wait for a clear night to see the stars?.
> 

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