Date:        Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:36:46 +0900
    From:        itojun@iijlab.net
    Message-ID:  <20020617223646.E83C74B24@coconut.itojun.org>

  | 	i don't think it wise for us to be different from other systems -
  | 	for instance, requiring different -lfoo in thirdparty software builds

Yes, good point.   I have no way to get the openssl people to change
what they're doing (don't even have the vaguest idea who/where they are).

But perhaps NetBSD could extract (as in copy, not move) the relevant
functions from the crypto libraries into a separate library that would
always be compiled (MKCRYPTO=no included) that could be used for in-tree
code that knows about it.

3rd party stuff could go on using -lcrypto as it does now, but in tree
code that simply wants bigger number support (including factor) could
just use -lbignum or something.

kre