division of code into libraries - openssl dependancy

Michael Richardson mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca
Tue Dec 10 02:51:34 UTC 2002


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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Andrews <Mark.Andrews at isc.org> writes:
    >> This is, for static linking, not a problem, since if the program doesn't use
    >> the crypto, it doesn't pull dst_* in. For dynamic linking, ironically, the
    >> program winds up bigger...
    >> 
    >> I would like to propose that the dnssec functions be moved out of libdns,
    >> into libdnssec, perhaps.

    Mark> 	libdst would be more appropriate.  You could then have a crypto
    Mark> 	aware libdst and crypto unaware libdst instead of a crypto aware
    Mark> 	libdns and a crypto unaware libdns.  However you would still need
    Mark> 	to link against libcrypto even if the upper layers don't make use
    Mark> 	of crypto when linking against the crypto aware libdst.

  okay, works for me.

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