Re: [PATCH] md5sum, sha*sum: use libcrypto where available

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/04/2013 03:58 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 12/04/2013 02:45 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 12/04/2013 01:39 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>>   --with-openssl          The coreutils default is: --with-openssl=optional
>>>   --with-openssl          use libcrypto hash routines. Valid ARGs are: 
>>> 'yes',
>>>                           'no', 'optional' => use if available
>>
>> I've documented the reason for that at least in configure.ac:
>>
>> dnl Enable use of libcrypto if available.
>> dnl Note we could do this as follows:
>> dnl   AS_VAR_SET_IF([with_openssl], [], [with_openssl=optional])
>> dnl However that would not document the coreutils adjusted default,
>> dnl so we add another --with-openssl description just to document that
>>
>> It's the best I could come up with for now,
>> and I don't think it's too bad?
> 
> Well, I think it's confusing because of the names:
> 'openssl' and 'libcrypto' (shouldn't the latter be 'libgcrypt'?) are
> distinct packages on an actual system, so I don't see how a user may
> choose between them with 'yes'|'no'|'optional'.
> What do I miss?

I shouldn't have mixed the names, but they're synonymous for me:

$ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so
openssl-devel...