Re: [links] gnutls and Lua

Forwarding to elinks-users, please drop the links-list CC in replies
(request for netiquette guidance: is this the proper procedure?).

On 19940624 20:18:10, Kali <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the connection between elinks and openssl, gnutls and Lua?

OpenSSL and GNUTLS are for encryption (HTTPS); either one or neither
may be used. Lua is a scripting language and is optional.

> Are these prerequisites to compiling the --with-SSL option?

Yes: You need either OpenSSL or GNUTLS, and you need the headers
for whichever one you choose to use. As you are compiling the libraries,
I assume that you are not using packages from your OS vendor,
but if you were, you would need to install for each library
a main package and, for some OSs, a corresponding -dev package.

For GNUTLS, you need either gnutls10 for ELinks CVS later than Sunday,
2004-06-20 18:22:10, or gnutls7 for anything earlier.

I don't know about ELinks' compatibility with different releases
of OpenSSL, but OpenSSL is more mature than GNUTLS and, AIUI,
better preserves compatibility between releases.

> How do I get configure to find these packages which seem to have compiled
> OK?

If you have installed the headers in /usr/include and the libraries
in /usr/lib and configure does not find them, please report the versions
of the libraries, the exact names of the library and header files,
and the version of ELinks. We would also appreciate details
of how you installed the libraries (e.g., did you use the default
installation paths? Did you remember to run ldconfig?).

> I am using an old 2.0.30 kernel, and is this perhaps a problem?

That should not matter.

BTW, I think that your clock is off -- ELinks did not exist
ten years ago.

HTH,

 -- Miciah <[email protected]>
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