On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:16 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
>
>> It was brought to my attention on the libcurl list that Metalink support didn't work unless curl was built using OpenSSL or GnuTLS. Sure enough, they were right.
>>
>> I've attached a patch that makes it so that curl builds cleanly when compiled --with-darwinssl and --with-libmetalink. I've tested it, too, and it seems to work as expected. It does not use OpenSSL; it uses the OS CommonCrypto library, which turns out to be backward-compatible with OpenSSL when used to generate digests.
>
> Lovely, thanks! I've pushed your patch now.

Tack.

> The configure parts for metalink might still need to check if a "suitable" crypto lib has been specified or detected already and either error out if not, or just disable metalink support again.

Yes, I'd agree with that. I am a little surprised libmetalink doesn't provide any help here, but then again, it is a version 0.x release.

Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>

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Received on 2012-08-08