Re: Updates to configure.ac for netfilter marking

On 11/01/11 12:00, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> mån 2011-01-10 klockan 22:12 +0000 skrev Andrew Beverley:
>
>>> Squid is expected to build on a number of OS including old Linux
>>> versions which were released before pkg-check became common. I've had no
>>> feedback from anyone using those OS to say it can be ported. So for now
>>> we are being a bit conservative and making do without it.
>>
>> Thanks, I thought that might be the case. Do you mind if I drop your
>> thoughts back to the netfilter-dev mailing list (in answer to Jan's
>> comments), as I feel a bit rude having not replied and not done anything
>> since his email!
>
> Personally I am quite fine with requiring pkg-config as a build
> requirement for automtic detection of libcap, openssl, openldap and a a
> couple more. My only requirement is that a minimal build should be
> possible even without pkg-config.
>
> pkg-config is often available even on those old OS versions even if not
> normally installed.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>

Aye, I think similar.

Andrew,
  If you want to make the patch it should be fine for trunk, scheduled
to go out with 3.3.

Amos

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