On Sun, Feb 19, 2006, Joerg Lehrke wrote:
> after quite some time I started using OpenPKG on IRIX again. And I have
> to say you did a good job! The bootstrap was working out of the box :-)
>
> But during my journey to a local 2.5 environment I chose to compile
> openssl with the "with_zlib yes" option. This was a recipe for disaster,
> as I found out later: Most -- if not any packages -- relying on OpenSSL
> are not prepared to link with libz.a while using libssl.a (e.g.
> sendmail, curl, imap) and therefore fail to build. I suggest to postpone
> this option until the dependencies are addressed. Otherwise you invite
> people the end in trouble, like I did.
Well, although I'm horribly biased when saying this ;-), the problem
actually is not OpenSSL's fault. OpenSSL installs a neat "openssl.pc"
where it records the required -lz ldflags. The problem actually is that
all GNU autoconf based checks in the world don't use pkg-config during
figuring out the link flags for OpenSSL. If we really want to fix this
issue we have to patch _ALL_ packages which depend on "openssl" and
teach them to use the openssl.pc file :-(
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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