Re: GNU Common Lisp (gcl) - need a new security context?

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Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 06:04:35PM +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 16:54 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
>>> Dropping gcl is a bad idea. gcl generates much better code in many
>>> cases;
>>> dropping makes Fedora bad for running Common Lisp (CL) applications.
>>> There are a lot of CL programs, and CL is still important; "Practical
>>> Common Lisp"
>>> was published 2005 and was a really popular book.
>> I am not unwilling to continue with GCL. However I would need some help
>> from people knowing about these issues (on several architectures) and
>> how to fix them.
> 
> See what libffi does, in particular the SELinux related stuff in closures.c.

That's a really nasty solution, though.  We'd have to get agreement
from upstream for this: it would not be good for us to maintain a
fork.

Andrew.

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