Re: [Firebird-devel] Building Firebird Linux with --with-builtin-tommath

[Dimitry S. <sd...@ib...>]

Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote 15.09.2022 11:08:
>> Also, it's different in the sense that official package builds and
>> package tomcrypt, but not tommath.
> 
> We did discuss sometimes ago why for universal binary package we have to use 
> built-in tomcrypt.
> Data structures, passed In it's API, depend upon compilation flags. It's pretty 
> easy to get an error in API call or even segfault due to it. Myself lost a lot 
> of time when started to work with it and did not have correct defines when 
> included tomcrypt.h. (At least it was so 5 years ago - may be fixed in fresh 
> versions?)
> With tommath there are no such issues...

   Why don't force build with static libs?

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