libgcrypt 1.1.93 released

Nikos Mavroyanopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Wed Mar 10 09:27:44 CET 2004


On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:33:09PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> You will have to make a choice if you want to link gnutls against
> libgcrypt-pthread, essentially making pthread a requirement for use of
> gnutls, or if you provide several libraries gnutls, gnutls-pthread,
> etc.
> I always found the dynamic thread detection a bit on the hackish side
> (and I wrote it!).  The current approach is much more "from the book".
> It has well defined functionality and limitations.
Yes, but it makes things so complex, that noone will bother use it.
It is not viable to have three or more versions of every library that
uses libgcrypt, directly or indirectly.

> Thanks,
> Marcus

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Nikos Mavroyanopoulos



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