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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Problem compiling kdm with XFree86-4.1.0 - missing symbols in libXdmcp.a
From:       Matthias Welwarsky <matze () stud ! fbi ! fh-darmstadt ! de>
Date:       2001-06-28 19:23:43
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On Thursday 28 June 2001 13:52, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > [some analysis]
>
> basically you're right.
> the problem are once more the stupid US cryptography export restrictions.
> XDMAUTH requires DES. as this is cryptography, the critical part
> (Wraphelp.c) is distributed separetedly. the HasXdmAuth in host.def
> should reflect presence of this file.

Whoa, OK. That explains why it didn't compile after I set the flag in 
host.def.

> HOWEVER, our configure should detect, if you use a libXdmcp with xdmauth
> support. a misdetetection can have two reasons:

> - your config.cache still holds the HASXDMAUTH=1 from your previous
>   xfree installation which contained the crypto-stuff.
>   just another case of "delete your config.cache and reconfigure". :)

Well, as I learned from a recent case, I made sure that I deleted 
config.cache and then reconfigured. I'll be looking into this later.

regards,
	Matthias
 
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