Re: nping fails to build on Mac OS X <10.6 because openssl is too old.

[Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnson31 () gmail com>]

On Jan 10, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Luis MartinGarcia. wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thank you for reporting this. Nping requires SHA-256 for its "Echo Mode"
> protocol but, as you may know, it is possible to disable cryptographic
> support using:
>
> ./configure --with-openssl=no
>
> Unfortunately there is no way to have crypto support without SHA-256, so
> users with OpenSSL<=0.97 will have to upgrade (0.9.8 has been around for
> almost 6 years so I expect systems with 0.9.7 or less to be a tiny
> fraction)

You'd be surprised. There's still a lot of OS X 10.5 users around as that's the last version that supports ppc and 
there are still a LOT of ppc Mac users.

> Anyway, I've added a check for EVP_sha256() that aborts compilation in
> case of failure. I attach a new version of configure.ac. Could you
> please give a try and let me know if it works?
>
> Thank you and best regards,
>
> Luis MartinGarcia.

This looks fine, but as I only have OS X 10.6, which has openssl 0.9.8, I can't test.

Daniel

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