On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:25:56PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Currently, when you specify --with-openssl, then configure automatically
> adds -L/usr/local/ssl/lib to LDFLAGS if that directory exists. This would
> pick up the wrong directory if you are in 64-bit mode. Analogous behavior
> exists for --with-krb5 with /usr/athena.
> I think these default installation directories of OpenSSL and Kerberos are
> mostly obsolete these days, so I'd rather get rid of that behavior
> altogether and let people specify the necessary directories with
> --with-libraries and --with-includes like for any of the other optional
> packages that PostgreSQL supports.
Both default directories are wrong according to my installation. In
fact, both libraries are just in /usr/lib. Certainly it will be a mess
trying to compile with a different LDFLAGS if things are added randomly.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Cómo ponemos nuestros dedos en la arcilla del otro. Eso es la amistad; jugar
al alfarero y ver qué formas se pueden sacar del otro" (C. Halloway en
La Feria de las Tinieblas, R. Bradbury)
