Change 11600 by jhi@alpha on 2001/08/07 11:53:48
Integrate change #11598 from maintperl (fcrypt.c URL updates)
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/README.win32#52 integrate
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/README.win32#52 (text) ====
Index: perl/README.win32
--- perl/README.win32.~1~ Tue Aug 7 06:00:05 2001
+++ perl/README.win32 Tue Aug 7 06:00:05 2001
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
on the export of cryptographic software. Nevertheless, this routine
is part of the "libdes" library (written by Eric Young) which is widely
available worldwide, usually along with SSLeay (for example,
-"ftp://fractal.mta.ca/pub/crypto/SSLeay/DES/";). Set CRYPT_SRC to the
+"ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/crypt/mirrors/dsi/libdes/";). Set CRYPT_SRC to the
name of the file that implements des_fcrypt(). Alternatively, if
you have built a library that contains des_fcrypt(), you can set
CRYPT_LIB to point to the library name. The location above contains
@@ -210,6 +210,12 @@
easier to use. A patch against the fcrypt.c found in libdes-3.06 is
in des_fcrypt.patch.
+An easier alternative may be to get the pre-patched and ready-to-use
+fcrypt.c that can be found here:
+
+ http://downloads.ActiveState.com/pub/staff/gsar/fcrypt.c
+ ftp://ftp.ActiveState.com/pub/staff/gsar/fcrypt.c
+
Perl will also build without des_fcrypt(), but the crypt() builtin will
fail at run time.
End of Patch.
