On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Simon King <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I try to test the new notebook (see #11080). Unfortunately, it fails > to build. > > According to the comments on the ticket, the development headers for > openssl are missing, and they could be installed by Ubuntu's libssl- > dev. > > However, I am not root for the machine in my office, and the sysadmin > will not be available till tomorrow. > > That makes me wonder: > * How could I install the development headers, myself? > * Note that installing the optional openssl spkg does not solve the > problem. It puts many headers into SAGE_ROOT/local/include/openssl/, > but apparently these aren't good enough for the new notebook spkg. Can > one modify the openssl spkg such that the missing stuff for the > notebook spkg is installed? How? > > And more generally: > * Do we really want that the libssl development headers will be an > additional dependency for Sage? > > On the ticket, Dima claims that this is a trivial problem, since any > modern Linux has openssl. But I think he is mistaken: There is openssl > on my machine, but this is not enough. > > From my perspective, getting the development headers (in addition to > openssl) is non-trivial. And I think it would be a bad idea to have it > as a dependency. To the very least, Sage should offer an optional spkg > that provides the missing stuff for the notebook (it can't be > standard, for licensing, as I was told). > > What do you think?
Thanks for testing and your remarks. It seems to me a no brainer that we should *definitely* make it so the optional openssl spkg actually does what we need ssl to do. -- William > Cheers, > Simon > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
