[gnutls-devel] --with-nettle-mini is ineffective

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 18:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> skribis:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> 
> > wrote:
> > > AFAICS, --with-nettle-mini does not have the desired effect since
> > > ‘configure’ unconditionally looks for Nettle with pkg-config.
> > 
> > Hi,
> >  Nettle-mini is a version of nettle without the gmp dependency. 
> > That
> > is used mainly in the openwrt system where you may want to trade
> > performance for space. That version of the library is not included 
> > in
> > gnutls, and that's why detection of the library is still required.
> 
> The lib/nettle directory contains mini-nettle, doesn’t it?  Why is 
> the full-blown Nettle still required, then?

No, lib/nettle contains gnutls' hooks for nettle.

regards,
Nikos