Re: pkg/44577 audio/pulseaudio openssl detection failure

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44577; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/44577 audio/pulseaudio openssl detection failure
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:29:03 -0400

 On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:10:10 +0000 (UTC)
 John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  It seems to mainly rely on pkg-config.  There aren't any openssl.pc
 >  files for the /usr/bin/openssl executable, so I am I not sure how that
 >  this is detected ok on a standard system.
 
 I also quickly looked for a -config script for openssl but didn't find
 one either.
 
 >  In a related topic, pkg/43420 questions why so many dependencies are
 >  required.  In this case, openSSL is only needed to support Airtunes.  I
 >  would think that this should be a non-suggested option rather than a
 >  mandatory dependency as the author of pkg/43420 proposes.
 
 I agree that it should then be an option (although that doesn't solve
 the openssl buildlink issue).
 -- 
 Matt