Re: SSL config info

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Bryan Stansell wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:43:55AM -0400, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> > OTOH, I did discover that if you run ./configure --with-openssl and
> > ./configure can't seem to make openssl work, it will happily continue to
> > build, removing the openssl option and issue no errors :(  Is there any
> > way we can have ./configure either emit a loud warning or simply die if
> > --with-openssl is specified but the configure tests don't pass?
> 
> personally, i'm a fan of having it continue if it can't find the
> necessary files (and my experience with other configure-based apps says
> that's the "normal" way of behaving, though i have seen some abort.  the
> whole idea for using configure is to auto-detect what it can and just
> live with the results).  but, i do believe it would be nice to see what
> happened in a nice, concise way.  so, how about a summary at the end of
> the configure run:
> 
[snip]

Looks great, works for me!

-n
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