From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kei Kebreau Subject: Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:04:41 -0400 Message-ID: <87wpjnme3a.fsf@openmailbox.org> References: <87h9b0ij9x.fsf@gmail.com> <87wpjvhfpg.fsf@elephly.net> <87eg62d5p4.fsf@gmail.com> <20160808200018.GA20179@jasmine> <871t1yvsn8.fsf@gmail.com> <20160809172728.b6wijrzccd5wdv37@galago.mtmxr.com> <87k2fpktsi.fsf@gmail.com> <20160811062627.mbaiqhssaejwh4hw@galago.mtmxr.com> <87fuqbl40a.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXtPj-0007NW-Qf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:05:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXtPg-0005fz-JS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:05:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87fuqbl40a.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Vong's message of "Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:27:49 +0800") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, help-octave@gnu.org, Mike Miller Alex Vong writes: > Mike Miller 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 IIRC, Octave has experimental JIT support using LLVM.