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Re: [HACKERS] Error compiling sepgsql in PG9.1

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Kohei Kaigai <Kohei.Kaigai@emea.nec.com>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Emanuel Calvo <postgres.arg@gmail.com>, postgresql Forums <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-24T18:12:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
2011/5/24 Kohei Kaigai <Kohei.Kaigai@emea.nec.com>:
> The attached patch enables to abort configure script when we run it with '--with-selinux'
> option, but libselinux is older than minimum requirement to SE-PostgreSQL.
>
> As the documentation said, it needs libselinux-2.0.93 at least, because this or later
> version support selabel_lookup(3) for database object classes; used to initial labeling.
>
> The current configure script checks existence of libselinux, but no version checks.
> (getpeercon_raw(3) has been a supported API for a long term.)
> The selinux_sepgsql_context_path(3) is a good watermark of libselinux-2.0.93 instead.

Looks to me like you need to adjust the wording of the error message.

Maybe "libselinux version 2.0.93 or newer is required", or something like that.

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Robert Haas
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