Re: [PATCH 2/3] selinux: load libselinux with dlopen instead of linking

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > libselinux.so is less than 200 KB large. Is it really worth the effort?
> > What is the size of "small images" that you are targeting, in MB?
> 
> Well it has a pcre2 transitive dependency.

Oh, indeed. That makes 200 KB + 700 KB = 900 KB.

> I am leaning towards libselinux being dlopened for coreutils at least,
> as most tools are functional with default options without it.

OK.

> For reference, handling of soname version was done in coreutils with:
> 
> https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=3bbdb3938
> https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=afc41505e

Oh, nice! This leaves the determination of the major version number to
the linker, compared to steps that I had proposed. That's definitely
the better idiom to use.

Bruno