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Re: fcrypt.c
From:
Gerrit P. Haase
Date:
July 31, 2001 15:17
Subject:
Re: fcrypt.c
Message ID:
3B674989.29804.2F46C26B@localhost
Gurusamy Sarathy schrieb am 2001-07-31, 13:13:
>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?
Well, the patch didn't apply anymore, because Young had made
some changes and he merged the patch in. There are some minor
differences, e.g. he used a macro (PERL5), but mainly all the
changes from the patch are in fcrypt.c included.
I try to use this version for a build.
gph
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