From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>,
guix-devel@gnu.org, help-octave@gnu.org,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:27:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuqbl40a.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160811062627.mbaiqhssaejwh4hw@galago.mtmxr.com> (Mike Miller's message of "Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:26:27 -0700")
Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 14:43:57 +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>> I thought it was an optional dependency because when I run
>> `./configure --help', it contains the following help:
>>
>> --with-openssl use libcrypto hash routines. Valid ARGs are: 'yes',
>> 'no', 'auto' => use if available, 'optional' => use
>> if available and warn if not available; default is
>> 'no'
>>
>>
>> Perhaps someone unaware of the issue adds this? Should I open a bug
>> report on this?
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't aware of this until now. This
> configure option actually comes directly from the gnulib project. You'll
> notice that the default is "no", which is exactly as it should be.
>
> Octave provides some standard hash functions that are built on GPL
> compatible functions provided by gnulib. As a side effect of enabling
> these gnulib modules, gnulib automatically adds the `--with-openssl`
> option to allow the user to specify that the OpenSSL libcrypto functions
> should be used instead.
>
> I couldn't find this described or documented anywhere, just had to go
> digging through the configuration macros, e.g.
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/m4/gl-openssl.m4
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/m4/sha1.m4
>
> Cheers,
I see. Thanks for the explaination. As Mark has pointed out, the problem
seems to be in the curl package.
Finally, some unrelated stuff, I hope octave would have a byte code
interpreter soon. I would suggest to write it in rpython, it seems to be
the easiest way to have jit these days.
Cheers,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-11 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 16:35 octave license is incompatible with openssl Alex Vong
2016-08-04 17:10 ` John Darrington
2016-08-04 17:20 ` ng0
2016-08-05 9:08 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-05 9:03 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-05 11:43 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-05 6:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-06 1:52 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-08 20:00 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-09 16:00 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-09 17:27 ` Mike Miller
2016-08-09 18:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-09 21:33 ` kei
2016-08-10 4:28 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 5:56 ` Mike Miller
2016-08-11 9:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-10 4:23 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-10 6:43 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-11 6:26 ` Mike Miller
2016-08-11 15:27 ` Alex Vong [this message]
2016-08-11 17:04 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-08-13 12:37 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-12 11:45 ` JIT compiling Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2016-08-12 15:08 ` Sergei Steshenko
2016-08-12 16:06 ` Oliver Heimlich
2016-08-13 1:03 ` Sergei Steshenko
2016-08-13 11:48 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-13 12:12 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-14 8:07 ` Sergei Steshenko
2016-08-14 10:21 ` Francesco Potortì
2016-08-14 20:20 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
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