Re: [PATCH] use libcrypto routines in gnulib

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/02/2013 06:12 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> To use this from coreutils I configure with --with-openssl
> and add in the appropriate libs as follows.
> Note since the new libs are required, then is one of the reasons
> I didn't enable this by default.  A related question though
> is I'd like coreutils to change the default to enable this by default.
> What would be the best way to do that, while still allowing users
> to --with-openssl=no

Thanks for doing all this work!  Sorry, I don't understand what
you mean by "the new libs are required".  Won't the code still
work even if libcrypto is absent, just as it did before?

I would think that this change should be enabled by default.
I'd want it enabled for Emacs, for example.  If some app
doesn't want it enabled by default we can worry about that
then.