William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
-1; please revert.all httpd and apr components build for ssl explicitly, on demand. They don't automatically inflict crypto API's on the user. See archives esp httpd's for why this policy exists.
The spec file is targeted at Redhat-like systems, and standard practice on Redhat-like systems is to build against all the system libraries typically available (but not necessarily installed on) Redhat-like systems.
It makes no sense to distribute a library that contains support for SSL, and yet that support comes switched off as standard.
The RPM spec file is not intended as a generic build spec that applies for other systems, like Solaris, Windows or Netware (etc).
Perhaps two rpm specs, apr-util and apr-util-ssl to distinguish the feature?
This breaks the "principle of least astonishment" behaviour of RPM spec files.
Regards, Graham --
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