Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:29:50 +0100
From: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] configure: check for AEAD function
 declarations, instead of linkage
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Hi,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 02:14:52PM +0100, Steffan Karger wrote:
> One might want to run ./configure before building the crypto library.
> To correctly check from AEAD support in that case, check for the
> function declaration, rather than trying to link to it.

Semi-Feature-NAK - I'm not convinced by the need to have this (your
setup is a bit unusual in that respect).

OTOH: if someone who understands Autoconf better than I do tells me that
"checking for the headers" is the "better" approach here than "trying to
link" I'm not going to block this.

gert
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