On Sat Mar 15 10:50:04 2008, doughera wrote:

> Ah, I think this one is easy:  If I recall correctly, the SHA256_CTX
> stuff was added in openssl version 0.9.8; I'll bet your system has
> 0.9.7.
> 

Yes.

OpenSSL> version
OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006



> Two reasonable fixes:
> 
> 1.  (Easy)  Change the test program that Configure.pl runs to use
> SHA256_CTX.  That way, the test program will actually test what parrot
> will be using.
> 
> 2.  (Hard)  Have parts of the "crypto" support conditionally included,
> depending on whether or not the user has that specific functionality
> available.
> 

While (1) is something that François, who wrote the step class, could
probably do, I suspect that (2) is a discussion the project will have to
have.

kid51


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