Re: [Monotone-devel] Not so minor problem in 0.99.1

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Markus Wanner <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/04/2011 05:48 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Richard Levitte <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Why should libbotan1.7-dev need to depend on libssl-dev?
>>
>> It's botan-config that adds -lcrypto to the link line, so it's
>> libbotan1.7-dev's responsibility to ensure that the bare
>> "libcrypto.so" symlink exists, which would be accomplished by
>> depending on libssl-dev.
>
> I think you are mixing -dev and non-dev packages. libbotan1.7-dev
> doesn't depend on any other -dev package. While libbotan1.7 very well
> depends on libssl0.9.8 (but still not libssl-dev) (on lenny, that is).
>
> On squeeze, I'm able to compile monotone (c2d9a013..) just fine without
> having libssl-dev installed (but with libssl0.9.8).

If that works correctly, then whatever added -lcrypto to the link line
is wrong.  Which would be libbotan1.7-dev again, if I understood the
config.log snippet right.

zw