Hi Werner, Mauro, and all, A generous volunteer (Logan Gabriel, cc'd) has been discussing offering a long-time project of his for system integrity checking to GNU.
One of the things the project needs is ssl-ish computations, such as provided by libgcrypt and openssl. My immediate question is, is there some known/recommended set of configure options for switching between these libraries? wget currently has these: --without-ssl disable SSL autodetection --with-libssl-prefix[=DIR] search for libssl in DIR/include and DIR/lib --without-libssl-prefix don't search for libssl in includedir and libdir Perhaps these options could be extended. If (say) --with-ssl=libgcrypt is given, it would look for that library, using the libssl-prefix to do so, if specified. Similar if given --with-ssl=libopenssl. I tried searching for "ssl" in other GNU configure scripts, but didn't immediately see anything germane. I gather the libgcrypt and openssl api's are not the same. Logan was going to implement a compatibility layer for the functionality he needs. Anyone have knowledge of previous work in this area? Finally, there is the painful licensing problem. About all I can think of is to use the same special exception that is included with wget. Any advice, reactions, ideas? Thanks, Karl
