On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:43:59AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Another thing to consider is depending on openssl and using ./configure --with-openssl which will get significantly faster sha*sum implementations.
In addition to the concern about making openssl a required component, I'm surprised coreutils uses openssl rather than gnutls, and doesn't have an SSL linking exception in the license.
Mike Stone
