Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] 0.99 ESP protocol preferences

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:30:24 +0200
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:44:21PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Jun 11, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> 
> >This is, how it looks on my system (untested):
> >
> >CFLAGS="-O3 -DHAVE_LIBCRYPT" ./configure --with-extra-gcc- 
> >checks .......
> 
> If you have to explicitly add in "HAVE_LIBCRYPT", that's a bug in the  
> configure script; it should figure out whether you have the  
> appropriate library.
> 
> It appears, from the code in packet-ipsec.c, that the appropriate  
> library is libgcrypt:
> 
> 	http://directory.fsf.org/security/libgcrypt.html
> 
> expected you to explicitly define HAVE_LIBCRYPT in order to get the  
> decryption code.
> 
> I'd say the configure script should check whether libgcrypt is  
> installed and, if so, use it.

I have the necessary changes in my sourctree, but untested. Will test
them later and add the changes so svn once I'm back from London
(thursday evening/friday).

 Ciao
   Joerg
-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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