Re: Request for rewiew: mbuffer-20050730

[Michael Schwendt <bugs michael gmx net>]

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:52:38 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:

> > So, to get MD5 support you really want to link against two OpenSSL libraries
> > plus its Kerberos dependencies?
> 
> Yes, because the build won't be reproduceable otherwise. Systems with 
> openssl-devel will use that implementation if they build the SRPM, 
> whereas systems without it would get the mhash version.
> 
> This could be worked around by setting environment variable 
> ac_cv_search_MD5_Init to "no" before running %configure so that MD5_Init 
> wasn't found and it would then look for and find mhash_init. However, 
> that would then result in a dependency on libmhash.so.2, which lives in 
> %{_libdir} rather than /lib and hence breaks Alexander's aim of being 
> able to use mbuffer with /usr not mounted.

Why would that work with OpenSSL?