FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Frediano Ziglio
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:19 AM
> 
> Il giorno ven, 09/12/2005 alle 08.53 -0500, James K. Lowden ha
> scritto:
> > I think the same thing can be done by:
> > 
> >     $ ./configure --with-gnutls
> > 
> > Tell me if not, because else there should be a configure option
> > to control what you did.
> 
> Yes, there is an option for OpenSSL but is not "documented" using
> 
>   ./configure --help
> 
> this is wanted for license issues. However is correctly documented
> in UserGuide. The reason is that in UserGuide you can explain in
> more details these license issues.

I think it should be documented.  It's completely legal to configure,
build, and run; the only issues regard the distribution of binaries.
This would be OK:

$ ./configure --help | grep openssl
  --with-openssl=DIR build with OpenSSL (license NOT compatible cf. User
Guide)

> About -ldl... why linker is linking to a static (.a) library instead
> of dynamic one??

Don't know.  If I don't go skiiing this weekend, I'll look into it.  

Regards, 

--jkl

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