Request for rewiew: mbuffer-20050730

[Paul Howarth]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:52:38 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>>So, to get MD5 support you really want to link against two OpenSSL libraries
>>>plus its Kerberos dependencies?
>>
>>Yes, because the build won't be reproduceable otherwise. Systems with 
>>openssl-devel will use that implementation if they build the SRPM, 
>>whereas systems without it would get the mhash version.
>>
>>This could be worked around by setting environment variable 
>>ac_cv_search_MD5_Init to "no" before running %configure so that MD5_Init 
>>wasn't found and it would then look for and find mhash_init. However, 
>>that would then result in a dependency on libmhash.so.2, which lives in 
>>%{_libdir} rather than /lib and hence breaks Alexander's aim of being 
>>able to use mbuffer with /usr not mounted.
> 
> 
> Why would that work with OpenSSL?

The resulting dependency is on libssl.so.5 (FC4), which lives in /lib, 
not %{_libdir}. I guess if that then depends on libkrb5, libz etc., 
whicb are in %{_libdir}, then that won't work either, which begs the 
question: why do the openssl libraries go in /lib?

Paul.