Re: Small SSL-related patch...

(I thought I sent this before but my email has been shaky lately.) IMHO,
it is not the task of the `--with-<package>' options to account for
unusual installation paths on the build machine. We have --with-includes
and --with-libraries for that, and we already rejected various other
attempts to add more spellings of that. Now this patch doesn't actually
add any options but it still opens a can of worms. Normal installation
procedures (including that of OpenSSL!) install into PREFIX/lib and
PREFIX/include, and I don't think that adding various other subsidary
algorithms of finding the required files, in locations that are not
sanctioned by the package in question, is going to do a lot of good.

Bruce Momjian writes:

> Applied. Seems this is not longer mentioned in the docs.
>
> >
> > Attached is a small patch that fixes a small "bug" with specifying the
> > souce directory of OpenSSL as argument to the --with-openssl - argument.
> >
> > ./configure --with-openssl=/tmp/openssl-0.9.5/ - the libcrypto.a is in the
> > "base" directory, not lib/.
> >
> > Also, there's 2-3 typo fixes to the documentation for SSL - it should be
> > "server.crt", not "server.cert".
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Dominic J. Eidson
> > "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli
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> > http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/
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