I think something like ./configure scripts usually print would do the job.
Something like "could not find SSL development libraries" would indicate
what's wrong much more clearly than "./bld/http_ssl_.c:232: error: expected
‘)’ before ‘*’ token" does.


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Brian Cottingham <spiffyt...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Would it be easy to add a check for openssl-devel to the build process to
>> provide a more helpful error message than the compile error?
>
>
> And what would the error be? It is not an error for SSL to be missing. It
> is an error to try to use it when it is missing.
>
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