[Nagiosplug-devel] trying out gnutls

[Andreas Ericsson]

sean finney wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:16:31PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>While you're at it, how about tucking it in a separate file 
>>(sslutils.c)? Otherwise all networking non-ssl plugins will have to be 
>>linked to the ssl libraries anyways, or the linker will complain.
> 
> 
> even though they don't reference any ssl symbols?  i didn't see this on
> my system, though i guess i could see it happening on other (non-gcc?)
> systems.  anyway, it's reasonable enough that it ought to be done
> anyways.  i'll be including this along with another commit in a few
> minutes.
> 
> btw, does anyone know if we actually need the "uname -p" call
> in configure?  on my linux systems there is no "-p" flag.  i know
> on solaris it's the "architecture instruction set" or something like
> that, but are we even using it?
> 

Not likely. I know heavily optimized code (mplayer, vlcplayer, glibc) 
sometimes take shortcuts through specific assembly instructions, but I 
see no real reason for such extreme optimization in the plugins. That 
information is also (usually) available through preprocessor macros.

http://predef.sourceforge.net for more info on preprocessor macros.

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