Help adding the idea extension...

[Chris Johnson]

Thanks for the reply Dave,
    By saying "won't work" I was meaning IDEA dosen't appear under 
ciphers when gpg --version is run. with or without (only in the 
.gnupg.conf file)  the command line --load-extension. I'm thinking it 
must be a SCO problem but wanted to hear from the list to see if anyone 
else had had a problem.
Here is the output:

OK oper> gpg --load-extension /u/oper/.gnupg/idea --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.3
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB

I really wanted to avoid rerunning configure and recompiling. We ran 
into problems with the assembler and the mpi files.

again thanks for the quick reply.
chrisj
David Shaw wrote:

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>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:04:49PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:
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>>Hi group,
>>   We recently got gnupg to compile on a SCO 5.0.5 box (No flames 
>>please. I wouldn't work with SCO if it were my choice). But I'm having a 
>>problem getting the idea extension to work.
>>I've downloaded the idea.c.gz file and compiled it. I added the line to 
>>the ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file that reads "load-extension idea". I had the 
>>compiled module in /usr/local/lib/ and in the ~/.gnupg/ directory and 
>>have put full paths ect....
>>I've tried to use the --load-extension option at the command line.
>>    
>>
>
>We need to see something a little more informative than "problem
>getting the idea extension to work" ;)
>
>What happens when you do "gpg --load-extension /path/to/idea -v --version" ?
>
>I don't know if SCO has some problems with dynamically loaded code.
>If it does, then --load-extension won't work.  You could take the
>idea.c file and drop it into the GnuPG source cipher/ directory.
>Re-run ./configure, rebuild GnuPG, and you'll have IDEA built-in.
>
>David
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