Re: Re: patch to fix configure(.in) on openbsd wrt/ krb5/com_err and readline linking

Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> This seems really weird. Firstly, doesn't OpenBSD use ELF? Shouldn't
> the library pull in the indirectly needed libraries automatically? But
> more to the point, why on *earth* would com_err depend on -lssl and
> -lcrypto? com_err is just a standard error handling library.  Why
> would it fail to link without ssl and crypto libraries?!?!

And you'd also need to explain why the spoonbill buildfarm member
is building just fine without this ... it does have kerberos
enabled ...

            regards, tom lane