Re: relocatable by default?

[Bruno Haible]

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hmm, that's too bad. If it's not done by default there's little chance
> it'll actually be used, especially in distributions.

Distributions are well served without --enable-relocatable. The people for
whom --enable-relocatable are useful are IMO
  - maintainers of a package who decide to provide binaries, for users'
    convenience,
  - users who want to share installed programs with some other users.

> What security issues, by the way? I (re)read the docs but I don't see
> what it is.

No no, I won't tell anyone how the exploit works :-) But there is an exploit.

Bruno