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Date:      Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:47:03 +0700 (NOVST)
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@newst.net>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: openssl/mdX.h and mdX.h name clashes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104021745180.91253-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010402130807.L462@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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hi, there!

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> > /usr/include/mdX.h and /usr/include/openssl/mdX.h
> > both declare structures and functions with the same name
> > (structures are a bit different) and this is a bit troublesome for
> > applications that want to link with both -lmd and -lcrypto
> > 
> > can we consider merging our mdX.h enhancements (MD5End, MD5File) to
> > openssl and switching to openssl/mdX.h entirely?
> 
> I believe that this is the way things are supposed to happen; this
> has been discussed on -arch recently, although somebody stated that
> OpenSSL already has all the functionality.  I wasn't quite able to
> find analogous functions in the source; and a single function,
> without setting up a BIO object and stuff, when all you need is
> the MD5 hash of a file by name, is definitely something useful.

Thanks for the pointer. I'll go read archives. I have already noticed that
function names are different (underscores) but the problem remains for
compilation time.

/fjoe


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