[fetchmail-devel] [Bug #16134] Incorrect library check in configure

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Bug #16134, was updated on 2009-Aug-13 17:00
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.

Project: Community Fetchmail
Category: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Bug Group: None
Priority: 3
Submitted by: voidmage
Assigned to : m-a
Summary: Incorrect library check in configure

Details: This is a followup of very old Gentoo bugs: 231400 and 185652.
It's a -Wl,--as-needed problem.
Most of it is a Gentoo only problem, except for two things:
- MD5_Init is in libcrypto, not libssl, so the check in configure.ac
is incorrect (well, OK, it's not documented that well,
which functions are in libssl and which in libcrypto)
- why it did work with that check removed -
is that check not really needed ?

Right now (since 6.3.9 at least), only thing I needed to do
to make things work, were changing "ssl" to "crypto" in
that AC_CHECK_LIB check.

In one of Flameeyes' blog posts it said that somewhere after
binutils 2.19, they've changed the behavior, so perhaps
even current state will work, but it's not that way now.

For detailed info, follow this link:
http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=16134&group_id=1824