shared libraries and selinux

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:57:27PM -0400, Matthew D Truch wrote:
> I'm the kst maintainer (a KDE scientific plotting program) and I'm
> locally building version 1.5.0 (just released) for testing before I
> place things in Fedora proper.  
> 
> I can easily build rpms and install them, but I get the following error:
> kst: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkstextdate.so.1:
> cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
> 
> The following chcon commands in %post fix the problem, but I don't
> really know much about selinux, if this is the correct course of action,
> or am I misunderstanding things.  
> chcon -t texrel_shlib_t %{_libdir}/libkst*so.1*
> chcon -t texrel_shlib_t %{_libdir}/kde3/kst*so
> chcon -t texrel_shlib_t %{_libdir}/kde3/kstplugins/*so

Instead of these hacks please try to fix the Makefiles, so that the library
doesn't have text relocations.
You can e.g. start with
eu-findtextrel /usr/lib/libkstextdate.so.1

	Jakub