Re: detect linkage against openssl or gcrypt

On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Peter Stuge wrote:

>> libssh2 can be linked against openssl or gcrypt however, so my build
>> environment needs to know which one in order to trigger the proper
>> initialisation code and avoid unneeded dependencies.
>
> The correct way to do this is through pkg-config. This is precisely the
> problem that pkg-config solves.

Is it? How would you build your makefile / build scripts with pkg-config to
figure this out?

> If libssh2 doesn't have a .pc file yet it needs to get one!

It has one.

But I could also imagine a run-time API so that an application can figure this
out on its own...

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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