Re: [Bug-wget] Current wget --version is slightly screwy

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Micah Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

> Yeah, that's always been the case. The question has always been: from
> where did we get our md5 implementation? builtin, openssl, or ...? We
> used to prefer openssl's and then fallback on a builtin one (which
> probably came from libiberty, and shares parentage with gnulib's). In
> some circumstances we also used another source (one provided on Sun OS
> or OpenSolaris). This tag's purpose was to identify which one was
> being used, so if anything went wrong, we'd know whose md5
> implementation to blame :)

Has that ever happened for anyone?  It seems that even when MD5 "fails",
it will be a failed compilation or at worst failed dynamic linking, not
incorrect run-time operation.

I would agree with Giuseppe (and you, if I understand you correctly)
that +md5/<source> can be safely removed.