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Re: fcrypt.c

From:
Gurusamy Sarathy
Date:
July 31, 2001 13:14
Subject:
Re: fcrypt.c
Message ID:
200107312013.f6VKDwf01794@smtp3.ActiveState.com
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:34:03 +0200, "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>> Gurusamy Sarathy schrieb am 2001-07-31 8:44:
>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:26:15 +0200, Nikola Knezevic wrote:
>> >in the readme.win32 file there is an error about the location where
>> >libdes could be found. The URL mentioned there doesn't exists.
>> 
>> Does anyone know the updated URL for libdes-3.06?
>
>Is it a must to be 3.06?

Not sure.  win32/des_fcrypt.patch is against the fcrypt.c that was
found in that version.  IIRC, some later versions (4.x?) split
fcrypt.c into a million little pieces, so it couldn't be easily
plugged into the perl sources.

>I found 3.23 here:
>http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/source/libraries/libdes-3.23/

Can you confirm if the patch will still apply? 


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com



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