It's fine for me. Personally I don't think that you really want to show
any detailed error message to the user. Signatures and encryption
is a backend stuff. Most errors are total failures and you could not
recover from them. For example, in the situation you mentioned
the error case is
I have installed the xmlsec-0.0.5 source tree on my Mandrake 8.1 system. It appears
to compile fine, but it fails all the tests in the test suite with errors such as the
following:
validity warning: or: Error: failed to read XML file
./merlin-xmldsig-twenty-three/signature-enveloped-dsa.xml
To link libraries dynamically comment the following line in
apps/Makefile.am:
xmlsec_LDFLAGS = -static
(and do not forget to run ./autoconf.sh; ./configure your params after
this)
The xmlsec library already has two packages: RPM ans RPMS. Personally, I
do not
see advantages of having