On 21 Oct 2017 01:18, cheako wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote > > however, i think this m4 should just be punted. you should update your > > code to use the pkg-config files that openssl now provides. > > I disagree, this m4 and others like it standardize the use of thee libraries > outside of system installations. For example if one wanted to test against > a source tree of openssl. If every project implemented "–with-openssl" > there may be differences in the implementation and/or spelling that would > cause users having to re-learn how to ./configure for a given project. > > I think it's important to standardize the way openssl is found and activated > across most projects.
it is standardized via pkg-config. or are you suggesting every single open source library out there get a m4 macro thrown into autoconf-archive just so people can do their own weird non-standard things ? pkg-config makes all of that go away. install your local stuff into a local tree, point pkg-config at that path, and it all just works. -mike
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