On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 01:20:18PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Jean Louis wrote: > > Configure cannot run without "sort", and if "sort" is compiled with > > ssl, then ./configure is not working, regardless. > > Sure, but that's not really a bug in the coreutils build procedure, which > assumes a POSIX-like environment containing the C compiler and a few > standard utilities. If these utilities don't work coreutils won't build, > just as most other packages won't build. > > It sounds like your problem is that your distro builds coreutils with the > --with-openssl option, but does not list the OpenSSL libraries as > prerequsites for coreutils. If so, that's a bug in your distro's packaging > rules and should be reported to your distro; it's not something coreutils > itself can fix.
Alright, I see, I need to take care of it. No, I do not use distros. I see it is not a bug in software. It is disturbing the flow. Why sort need to have ssl with that option? Jean
