[PATCH app-xdm 1/6] config: add "Check for system libraries" section

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Oct 26 12:56:05 PDT 2010


Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> +# Function getspnam comes from the C library, Sysmtem V -lsec, UnixWare 7 -lgen

s/Sysmtem/System/

> +# The crypto library comes from OpenSSL
> +AC_SEARCH_LIBS(crypt, crypt)

libcrypt (no "o") is not the same as OpenSSL libcrypto

I believe most modern systems have crypt() in libc, but some older
ones had to put it in a library only included in systems shipped to
countries allowed under the US export control laws of the time.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System



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