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Monty Taylor (mordred) wrote : Re: [Bug 499958] [NEW] configure does not allow choosing the md5 implementation

Darn. I was hoping no-one would notice that... :)

Diego E. Flameeyes Pettenò wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> While the md5 implementation currently can be either of OpenSSL's
> libcrypto or GnuTLS's OpenSSL compatibility layer, there seem to be no
> way to choose between the two of them using the configure script,
> without tricking it with an ac_cv_* variable.
>
> Choosing the implementation is important for source-based distributions
> such as Gentoo because curl also has multiple SSL implementations, and
> if both http-auth and md5 plugins are enabled, they should use the same
> implementation to avoid linking conflicts at runtime.
>
> ** Affects: drizzle
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>