Re: [Lynx-dev] SSL in 2.8.7dev.11a

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Dixi quod…
>
> > This is fun, I get this with 2.8.7dev.11a (but not dev.8):
> >
> > […]
> > checking if SIGWINCH is defined... yes
> > checking if you want NSS compatible SSL libraries... no
> > checking if you want ssl library... /usr
> > checking if you want gnutls support... no
> > checking if you want gnutls-openssl compat... no
> > checking if you want socks library... no
> > […]
>
> Can be fixed with two changes:
>
> • export ac_cv_path_PKG_CONFIG=none into the configure environment
>  ‣ it seems to try to still use an installed pkg-config from ports
>    while compiling for base; pkg-config is undesirable anyway even
>    for ports because it “automagically” picks up stuff it finds in-
>    stead of having proper dependency handling
> • replace 「--with-ssl=/usr」 with 「--with-ssl」
>  ‣ apparently, the argument to --with-ssl is assigned to a variable
>    which is thusly tristate (no, yes, somepath), but at least one
>    of the CF_SSL checks thinks it’s boolean, checks only for equality
>    with ‘yes’ (instead of diverging from ‘no’) and fails if a path
>    is given

The script is using the --exists option of pkg-config to see if pkg-config 
knows about the library.  If pkg-config returns a success here, it'll use 
the non-pkg-config checks.  (One of those has a problem - either 
pkg-config is returning a success on the incorrect --exists, or there's 
something amiss with the non-pkg-config checks - I'm thinking it may be 
the first since the OpenBSD system has no pkg-config).

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