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Re: lynx-dev Crypto Question
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T.E.Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Crypto Question |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:32:09 -2800 (EDT) |
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
>
> > > Where and how, specifically, do I tell the Lynx configure and make about
> > > my Open SSL files? I am unable to use the standard directory structure
> > > (/usr ...) and, therefore, plopped Open SSL into a directory in my home
> > > dir.
> >
> > you don't - the makefile looks for SSL in a particular place -- iirc,
> > /usr/local/ssl (so you would edit the makefile if that doesn't match).
>
> Tom, this is a bit unusual. Shouldn't we normally expect configure
> to find the libraries when the environment variable LIBS is set to
> "-L/path_to/ssl/lib" and CPPFLAGS is set to "-I/path_to/ssl/include",
no - we don't have it in the configure script because we don't have
_anything_ in the normal distribution regarding ssl. patching the
configure script as part of the ssl patch is a bit messy (doable,
but not worth the time relative to having someone change just the
one line in the makefile).
> where path_to is the path to the parent directory for ssl. I haven't
> tried to compile the SSL lynx binary, but this syntax for interacting
> with configure generally works for other libraries not in the usual
> place.
> Doug
> __
> Doug Kaufman
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