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@@ -81,11 +81,11 @@ functions.
<li> A POSIX-compliant system with a standard C development environment </li>
<li> GNU make, version 3.81 or later </li>
<li> <a href="//skarnet.org/software/skalibs/">skalibs</a> version
-2.9.2.1 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time
+2.10.0.0 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time
requirement if you link against the shared version of the skalibs
library. </li>
<li> <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a> version
-2.9.1.0 or later. It's a <em>run-time</em> requirement only, to run
+2.10.0.0 or later. It's a <em>run-time</em> requirement only, to run
the nsssd service (and can be done without if you have a suitable replacement
for <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-ipcserver">s6-ipcserver</a>). </li>
</ul>
@@ -94,13 +94,13 @@ for <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-ipcserver">s6-ipcserver</a>). </li>
<p>
nsss is free software. It is available under the
-<a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC">ISC license</a>.
+<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC">ISC license</a>.
</p>
<h3> Download </h3>
<ul>
- <li> The current released version of nsss is <a href="nsss-0.0.2.2.tar.gz">0.0.2.2</a>. </li>
+ <li> The current released version of nsss is <a href="nsss-0.1.0.0.tar.gz">0.1.0.0</a>. </li>
<li> Alternatively, you can checkout a copy of the
<a href="//git.skarnet.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/nsss/">nsss
git repository</a>:
diff --git a/doc/libnsss/index.html b/doc/libnsss/index.html
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+++ b/doc/libnsss/index.html
@@ -103,6 +103,17 @@ the other functions will be aliased similarly.
</p>
<p>
+ <tt>pwd.h</tt> can be found in the <tt>nsss/</tt> subdirectory of
+the header installation directory; if the <tt>--enable-libc-includes</tt>
+option has been given to configure, it can also be found directly
+in that directory. (Example: <tt>/usr/include/nsss/pwd.h</tt> is
+always installed, but if the option has been given at nsss build time,
+<tt>/usr/include/pwd.h</tt> is also installed and replaces the
+version provided by the libc.) This also applies to the <tt>grp.h</tt>
+and <tt>shadow.h</tt> files.
+</p>
+
+<p>
If the NSSS_DISABLE_SWITCH macro is defined before inclusion of the
nsss headers, then <tt>getpwnam()</tt> will be aliased to
<tt>nsss_unix_getpwnam()</tt> instead, and the other functions will
@@ -121,9 +132,17 @@ functions will follow the same pattern.
are visible in your header search path. </li>
<li> Use <tt>#include &lt;nsss/nsss.h&gt;</tt> </li>
<li> To use the standard <tt>pwd.h</tt> interface, you can
-just <tt>#include &lt;pwd.h&gt;</tt>, which will work as long
-as the <tt>nsss/pwd.h</tt> header is accessible in your header
-search path. </li>
+just <tt>#include &lt;pwd.h&gt;</tt>, which will work:
+ <ul>
+ <li> either if the <tt>--enable-libc-includes</tt> option
+has been given at nsss build time </li>
+ <li> or if you give the <tt>-I/usr/include/nsss</tt> option
+to your compiler. (Depending on your standard header location,
+specify that the header search path should include the
+<tt>nsss</tt> subdirectory of that location.) This is useful when
+the administrator did not want to overwrite the libc-provided
+<tt>pwd.h</tt> file when they installed nsss. </li>
+ </ul> </li>
<li> Same thing for <tt>grp.h</tt> and <tt>shadow.h</tt>. </li>
<li> If don't want to use the nsss-all implementation of
"try nsss-switch and fall back to nsss-unix if it fails", then
diff --git a/doc/upgrade.html b/doc/upgrade.html
index b0ae772..00fffe3 100644
--- a/doc/upgrade.html
+++ b/doc/upgrade.html
@@ -18,11 +18,17 @@
<h1> What has changed in nsss </h1>
-<h2> in 0.0.2.3 </h2>
+<h2> in 0.1.0.0 </h2>
<ul>
<li> <a href="//skarnet.org/software/skalibs/">skalibs</a> dependency bumped to
-2.9.2.1. </li>
+2.10.0.0. </li>
+ <li> <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a> optional dependency bumped to
+2.10.0.0. </li>
+ <li> The <tt>pwd.h</tt>, <tt>grp.h</tt> and <tt>shadow.h</tt> header files are
+not installed by default anymore. You now need to explicitly give the
+<tt>--enable-libc-includes</tt> configure option in order to install them. The
+point of this change is to avoid overwriting libc headers accidentally. </li>
</ul>
<h2> in 0.0.2.2 </h2>