Documentation patches for ./configure message

Dave someguytryingtohelpwithtor at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 03:02:15 UTC 2008


Hi everyone,

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. I searched around and
'or-dev' seemed like the best place to submit a documentation patch.
Let me know if I should send this somewhere else.

--

I recently downloaded tor-0.2.0.30 and attempted to build from source.
When the configuration process could not find my openssl library
(under Ubuntu Edgy) it gave this error message:

"checking for openssl directory... configure: WARNING: Could not find
a linkable openssl.  If you have it installed somewhere unusal, you
can specify an explicit path using --with-ssl-dir"

Looking at the source, however, I believe this message should use the
switch '--with-openssl-dir' instead of '--with-ssl-dir'. A minor issue
perhaps, but nice to fix. Below is a patch to the configure.in file in
case you want to use it. There is also a patch to acinclude.m4 to fix
the minor typo for 'unusal'. Both of these are patched to the head SVN
files I downloaded a few hours ago - I hope that's current enough.


Cheers,
Dave

-------
--- configure.in	2008-08-22 01:58:51.000000000 +0000
+++ configure.in.patched	2008-08-22 02:41:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
 TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY(openssl, $tryssldir, [-lssl -lcrypto $TOR_LIB_GDI],
     [#include <openssl/rand.h>],
     [void RAND_add(const void *buf, int num, double entropy);],
-    [RAND_add((void*)0,0,0); exit(0);], [--with-ssl-dir],
+    [RAND_add((void*)0,0,0); exit(0);], [--with-openssl-dir],
     [/usr/local/openssl /usr/lib/openssl /usr/local/ssl /usr/lib/ssl
/usr/local /usr/athena /opt/openssl])

 dnl XXXX check for OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER == SSLeay()

-------
--- acinclude.m4	2008-08-22 01:58:51.000000000 +0000
+++ acinclude.m4.patched	2008-08-22 02:40:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@

   if test "$tor_$1_dir_found" = no; then
     if test "$tor_$1_any_linkable" = no ; then
-      AC_MSG_WARN([Could not find a linkable $1.  If you have it
installed somewhere unusal, you can specify an explicit path using
$7])
+      AC_MSG_WARN([Could not find a linkable $1.  If you have it
installed somewhere unusual, you can specify an explicit path using
$7])
       TOR_WARN_MISSING_LIB($1, pkg)
       AC_MSG_ERROR([Missing libraries; unable to proceed.])
     else



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