On 12/02/2013 02:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > To use this from coreutils I configure with --with-openssl
> Note since the new libs are required, then is one of the reasons > I didn't enable this by default. A related question though > is I'd like coreutils to change the default to enable this by default. > What would be the best way to do that, while still allowing users > to --with-openssl=no Seems the handiest way to do this is to do the following in configure.ac before gl_INIT: dnl Enable use of libcrypto by default AC_ARG_WITH([openssl], [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-openssl], [use libcrypto hash routines if available: default=yes])], [], [with_openssl=yes]) thanks, Pádraig.