On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Bodo Moeller via RT wrote:
> Often, the cert/key directory is not used at all; otherwise it should be Well, at least pine and lynx do. And there will be others... > easy to use symbolic links to get the desired effect. Thus it should be > possible to do without the '--certdir' patch. It is certainly possible to do without the option. I can use a symbolic link or fiddle around with environment variables. The point is that I have to do it manually, after installation. And I thought that this is what the configure scripts etc. are for: to produce a completely configured and properly set up installation. Put all the knowledge into the configure parameters and that's it. > A reason for *not* introducing '--certdir' is that the > '--prefix'/'--openssldir' situation is already a little bit complicated > w.r.t. default values, and there have been proposals to simplify it. > '--certdir' would further complicate the current situation. It may be a little complicated the way the parameters are named now but I think that seperating architecture-dependent files from architecture-independent files and from version-independent files should be a minimal requirement. -Gerald ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
