[Pkg-clamav-devel] dlopen/libclamavunrar_iface in 0.95

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Michael Tautschnig said:
> Hi all,
> 
> According to https://wiki.clamav.net/Main/UpgradeNotes095 upstream has decided
> to include dlopen support in ClamAV. If I read the instruction correctly, this
> still means that we should use --disable-unrar when building the package and
> only our users may themselves enable that, install libclamavunrar_iface.so and
> it will be all good. Is that correct?

Yes - the problem is that the unrar license isn't compatible with the
GPL, so we can't ship linked objects that result from codebases under
the two licenses, as I understand it.

> If I'm wrong and we need to ship libclamavunrar_iface.so (the license would
> allow us to do so), we'll need to tweak the libclamav/Makefile.am a little bit
> because it only allows to build all of the unrar stuff or nothing at the moment.
> No big deal, but I just don't want to do that if it turns out not be necessary.

No, I don't think so.  I'm also planning to see what needs to be done to
build the unrar stuff out of tree and see if I can get upstream to take
the patch.  I'm batting fairly low recently, but it's worth a shot.

Cheers,
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