Re: failing to send patches to the list

also sprach Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] [2007.07.14.0258 +0200]:

Shouldn't this be rather in configure.in? Main Makefile has only
defaults for different systems, but does not do tests.

You are right, except git HEAD already comes with a Makefile (rather
than a Makefile.in), so I just ran it while testing out patches.
I introduced the test because I thought the computer could find out
about libssl for me, rather than myself having to forget to specify
NO_OPENSSL every time.

I agree that this should be (also) in configure.ac; the question is
more whether we *could* also add it to the Makefile to make
from-source compilations easier.

On the other hand, I wonder: if the mozilla/sha.h implementation is
in the tree anyway, why even bother with libssl? The SHA
implementation is unlikely to be changed anytime soon, so the extra
library dependency seems overkill just for the SHA hash
functionality.

Just my 2¢

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