On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> From: Tim Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> tim> An issue that affects all platforms is "make install" does not
> tim> install libRSAglue.a
> tim> This problem was also there in openssl-0.9.6
>
> I want everyone to be ready for a shock: With OpenSSL 0.9.7, there
> will be no libRSAglue at all! We've stopped supporting that, and
> promptly removed it from the main development branch. In the 0.9.6
> release branch it still exists, but if you want to install it, you
> have to do it manually (you will note that openssl.spec does it
> explicitely for the 0.9.6 branch).
>
> The reason for this is that since the beginning of last Septembre, the
> RSA algorithm is public domain, and therefore RSAref is completely
> obsolete in all senses of the word, and we want to encourage everyone
> to forget RSAref and RSAglue.
I only brought it up because I remember doing ./confgure on some
package and it bombed because of no libRSAglue. That's when I
discovered "make install" didn't install it. Given that I can't
even remember what package that was, its probably not needed anymore.
Thanks for the explination.
>
>
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