Re: linux-ipsec: FreeS/WAN on PPC Linux


Subject: Re: linux-ipsec: FreeS/WAN on PPC Linux
From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Tue Nov 02 1999 - 18:42:28 MST


On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Darron Froese wrote:
> I may be mistaken but I believe that gmp is used when ssh is built...

I think SSH has its own variant of GMP, but yes, it's basically the same
code... Sounds like they may have smartened it up.

> I've already got gmp-2.0.29a installed on my box - it comes with the ydl
> distro...

Interesting -- does it say who's maintaining it? ftp.gnu.org still has
only 2.0.2, which is essentially identical to what's in FreeS/WAN.

> > You might be able to convince GMP to use non-assembler generic code -- I
> > believe it has that -- but we've never explored the details.
>
> What can be added to the FreeS/WAN install/compile to substitute that
> generic code in that case? Anything?

I expect there's a way; has anybody else on the list sorted it out?

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
                                                     (henry@zoo.toronto.edu)



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