On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 08:17:22AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
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> Will there still be a Perl based config? if not, another hurrah for
> that; although it doesn't look like an easy rework to do, there are
> Perl installations that only are there for installing OpenSSL...
Perl is not just needed for running the configuration script; it is
also needed for putting together some of the assembler files, changing
defaults in various files (well, this counts as configuration, I
guess), creating a single Makefile (for Windows builds), running "make
depend" (which you have to do if you delete some of the ciphers),
etc. For library development, Perl is also needed for collecting error
codes and function prototypes. Some things that are easy to do in
Perl would make for ugly and slow shell scripts.
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