I think it was about a month ago and would have mentioned "no-hw" and "no-engine" in the messages, in fact there probably aren't too many messages with "no-engine" in them. I don't recall giving any details about what was wrong with no-hw and don't recall the details now. Though I do remember that if I didn't add the no-engine option that I'd have to add a lot more "#ifndef ...WINDOWS_CE" blocks and that the code would be messier than need be, and messier than I was happy about.
Yes, I was using the word "supported" loosely. I'm not sure what use a no-evp/no-stack/no-bio OpenSSL would be. :-) Steven -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Levitte via RT Sent: Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [openssl.org #287] [PATCH] no-engine (openssl-0.9.7-stable-SNAP-20020915) [[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri Oct 4 15:32:21 2002]: > I found that the no-hw option didn't work. Hmm, I probably need to reread that thread. Could you tell me approximately when it was discussed? > After discussing it on the list I agreed to contribute a no-engine > option. I understand that no-engine doesn't imply the same thing > as no-hw, but it still seems like a good option to have. Until > the software crypto gets moved into an engine this option allows > building of an OpenSSL "classic" which is useful when footprint is > important, such as when ported to PDA's (and maybe even the next > generation of mobile phones). OK, I can accept footprint as an argument. > With seemingly silly configuration options like no-evp, no-bio, > no-stack being supported, I entirely agree that those are silly. I've some plans for the future to do a major review of those options. Besides, "supported" is a matter of definition. Just the fact that you can actually give them to the Configure script doesn't really mean they're supported. Just try giving 'no-stack' and you'll probably see the build of OpenSSL fall flat and never recover (until you've caught your senses and reconfigured :-)). -- Richard Levitte ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
