Re: [PATCH] imap-send: link against libcrypto for HMAC and others

Jared Hance [off-list ref] writes:

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You are both correct; the point of NO_OPENSSL is not to link with anything
from openssl suite, so we need a separate mechanism to address this.

Anders, wouldn't this be a better fix for NO_OPENSSL build, than reverting
a fix for an incorrect ld invocation?

Could we get this fixup patch into master? Leaving the original patch
in without it doesn't seem like a good idea when it breaks the build.

That depends on what Diego and Anders would say/report, and that is why
their address were on To/Cc in the message you are replying to.  Why did
you cull Cc from your message?

One thing I do not like about it is that the "fixup" is ugly.  It makes
people expect to add $(LIB_4_CRYPTO) on their linker command line to get a
correct linking with -lcrypto library, when all it does is _not_ to link
with -lcrypto at all, so whatever program that uses it needs to know about
NO_OPENSSL and refrain from using the symbols from that library.