DES AWOL after 4.8

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:44:28PM -0700, Dave Tweten wrote:
> stefan at csudsu.com said:
> >I had the same thing happen, the symbolic link does not exist. You can
> >just link libcrypto to libdes
> >libdes.a -> libcrypto.a
> >and so forth. 

No, do _not_ do this.  libdes and libcrypto are not compatible
(especially since OpenSSL 0.9.7, introduced in 4.8-RELEASE).

> In my case the problem doesn't seem to be non-existance.  It's corruption. 
>  The libdes links were:
> 
> 	libdes.a -> libcrypto.a
> 	libdes.so -> libcrypto.so.2
> 	libdes.so.3 -> libcrypto.so.2
> 	libdes_p.a -> libcrypto_p.a
> 
> Following your advice, I created the following links:
> 
> 	libdes.so -> libcrypto.so
> 	libdes.so.2 -> libcrypto.so.2
> 	libdes.so.3 -> libcrypto.so.3
> 
> When I rebuild pidentd, all was well.  Thanks.

You really want to remove the symlinks, otherwise you may be screwed
later.  `installworld' is supposed to remove them for you.

Anyway, the pidentd port was broken.  I have now fixed it.

Cheers,
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Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
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