Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 08:12:00 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] lz4: Changing how LZ4 library handling
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Hi,

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 03:22:25AM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote:
> This change will expect the system to have LZ4 libraries and headers
> installed by default.  We still carry a bundled LZ4 library, which
> must now be explicitly enabled through providing --enable-bundled-lz4
> to ./configure.  Otherwise, as before, --disable-lz4 will completely
> remove any LZ4 support.

I'm totally missing the *reason* why you want to change this

We don't have --enable-bundled-compat flags for the rest of the things
in compat/ either, don't we?

Also, I can't see consensus that "remove the bundled lz4" is the way to=20
go - this was on the plate for the hackathon to discuss.  You and Antonio
are convinced that this is a good way forward, applying a very specific=20
Linux-distro-based mindset to it ("missing libraries are a problem of the
package builder, why should we care?") - please listen to my arguments: the=
re
are people out there that build OpenVPN from source (tarball or git), and
they are looking at library dependencies with a slightly different view.

gert
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