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# `selinux-sys`: Unsafe Rust bindings for `libselinux`

SELinux is a flexible Mandatory Access Control (MAC) for Linux.

This crate exposes neither *deprecated* nor *undocumented* SELinux API functions
and types.

This crate is Linux-specific. Building it for non-Linux platforms, or for
the Linux kernel, results in an empty crate.

## Supported environment variables

This crate depends on some environment variables, and *variants* of those.
For each environment variable (e.g., `CC`), the following are the accepted
variants of it:
- `<var>_<target>`, *e.g.,* `CC_aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu`.
- `<var>_<target-with-underscores>`, *e.g.,* `CC_aarch64_unknown_linux_gnu`.
- `TARGET_<var>`, *e.g.,* `TARGET_CC`.
- `<var>`, *e.g.,* `CC`.

The following environment variables (and their variants) affect how this crate
is built:
- `SELINUX_STATIC`
- `SELINUX_PATH`
- `SELINUX_INCLUDE_DIR`
- `SELINUX_LIB_DIR`
- `SYSROOT`
- `CC`
- `CFLAGS`

## Dynamic or static linking

This crate links to `libselinux` dynamically if possible, except when targeting
platforms based on the `musl` C library.

This behavior can be changed either by setting the environment variable
`SELINUX_STATIC` to `1`, or by enabling the crate feature `static`.
If both are defined, then the value of `SELINUX_STATIC` takes precedence.

Setting `SELINUX_STATIC` to `0` mandates dynamic linking.

## Finding SELinux library and headers

By default, this crate finds SELinux headers and library based on the default
target C compiler.

This behavior can be changed by:
- Either defining the environment variable `SELINUX_PATH` to the path of
  a directory containing the sub-directories `include` and `lib` where
  the headers and library are installed.
- Or by defining one or both of the environment variables `SELINUX_INCLUDE_DIR`
  and `SELINUX_LIB_DIR` to paths to the directories where headers and library
  are present. If `SELINUX_PATH` is also defined, then `SELINUX_INCLUDE_DIR`
  and `SELINUX_LIB_DIR` take precedence.

## Depending on this crate

This crate provides the following variables to other crates that depend on it:
- `DEP_SELINUX_INCLUDE`: Path of the directory where library C header files reside.
- `DEP_SELINUX_LIB`: Path of the directory where the library binary resides.

## Versioning

This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning].
The `CHANGELOG.md` file details notable changes over time.

[Semantic Versioning]: https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html