On Oct 18, 2011, at 13:32, Niels Möller wrote:

Ryan Schmidt writes:

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I've patched nettle in MacPorts to build proper Mac OS X dynamic libraries, and wanted to share the patch with you.

Thanks. One question: You add $(LIBS) to LIBNETTLE_LIBS (and to LIBHOGWEED_LIBS). Why, and what do you expect $(LIBS) to contain? It usually contains -lgmp (if configure finds the gmp library), which shouldn't be needed by the dynamic nettle library, and which is included explicitly in LIBHOGWEED_LIBS.

I expected $(LIBS) to be empty, but I added it for consistency with the mingw32 and cygwin cases. But it's not in the solaris or default cases so I don't know if that was correct. I figured somebody might want to pass in additional libs in the LIBS variable some day. It is listed in "./configure --help" as an "influential environment variable" so I wanted its influence to be respected in the event that it is used.

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Since your mailing list software appears to silently strip out attachments,

Might depend on the content-type of the attachment. I'm not really friends with mailman configuration. Sorry for the inconvenience. It's also perfectly ok to post patches inline (unless perhaps if they're really huge).

I've seen mail programs and mailing list software strip leading whitespace which pretty much destroys patches pasted inline so I try to refrain from doing that.