On 03/04/2014 09:29 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 02:44 PM, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
>> <adsmail@wars-nicht.de> wrote:
>>> On 03/03/2014 11:32 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
>>>> <adsmail@wars-nicht.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I know how to fix this. My question is: why is "configure" not
>>>>> checking
>>>>> for this library, when it is required to build pgAdmin3?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Noone wrote the code I guess. Patches welcome :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Just checking the code: why is it even requiring "crypto" when compiling
>>> without --with-openssl?
>>
>> That's actually the likely reason why we don't do that test. It seems
>> to be required because we're linking with libpq which is linked with
>> OpenSSL, apps linking to it (on some platforms) also need to link with
>> libcypto. It may also be that an element of bitrot has crept into that
>> configure option - I very much doubt anyone has tested without SSL
>> support in a long time.
>
> Given what you said, attached is a patch which requires "openssl/ssl.h"
> to be available. If not, configure bails out with an error message.
Any feedback regarding this patch?
Thanks,
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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project
