aMSN, tls, messenger

[Geert Janssens]

Matthias Saou wrote:
> Richard.Gill@math.uu.nl wrote :
> 
> 
>>/usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>>
>>Does this mean that I don't have krb5.h?
>>The strange thing is that I DO have this header file, and
>>I even copied it to the location, /usr/include/openssl,
>>where the make program for tls1.5 is also looking for openssl
>>headers. I am trying to build tls support for aMSN, which is needed
>>to log in to the msn network.
> 
> 
> Eek, don't manually copy include files around! It's probably a good old
> known bug again, for which a workaround would be :
> 
> export CFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags openssl`"
> export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS `pkg-config --libs-only-L openssl`"
> 
> Then the ./configure && make stuff.
> 
Wow, that's an impressive trick !

I've never seen this before. Could you explain in short what the "old 
bug" is, and how this pkg-config trick fixes it ?

Thanks,

Geert