Re: what is -lcrypt?

Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> It means just "crypt", which in turn actually means libcrypt.
>
> Most probably you are missing a development-package.
> AFAICT libcrypt comes with glibc2, in Debian distribution it is packaged 
> alongside the libc inside the libc6-package. Which effectivly means that
> it is impossible to not have it.
>
> Your distribution (which?) appears to have it broken down a little bit 
> different.
>   
I'm using ubuntu. The bad news for me are: libc6 & libc6-dev were 
already there before installing.
Looks like I am stuck with installing AES (I recompiled ubuntu kernel 
2.6.17.14, followed AES readme)... I will let you know, if I find a 
solution.

PS: I hope that's not a problem, if I answer private posts back to list?

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