On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:49:46 +0100 you wrote:
> ulf> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:48:22PM +0000, Karsten Ballueder wrote:
> ulf>
> ulf> > This means, that whoever compiles a package using openSSL
> ulf> > must know the options used to compile the openSSL library
> ulf> > itself, so to add e.g. -DNO_IDEA to the packages compiler
> ulf> > flags.
> ulf>
> ulf> The flags are placed in the toplevel Makefile.
>
> That was hardly a relevant answer. The Makefile isn't among the
> installed files, right? And basically, the installed files are all
> there is for external (third party, whatever you wanna call them)
> packages to go on.
>
> This means that it would be a Good Thing<TM> if for example
> opensslconf.h was filled with a number of defines showing how Ope
Exactly what I meant. Such a small config file would make
life much easier for other package maintainers or people who
try to install them. And it's so easy for you to do so.
Thought you might want to know about our application: It's
the Mahogany Project, a cross-platform, open-source
email/news client which now eventually supports
IMAP/POP3/NNTP/SMTP over SSL thanks to your efforts!
(We are currently rewriting the startup dialog which will
give proper credit to OpenSSL!)
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