about CPP Makefile macro

[Manlio Perillo]

On 08/11/2013 13:20, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:38:00PM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I have noted that the generated Makefile has a CPP macro, but it is
>> never used.
>>
>> I also tried with:
>>
>>      ./configure --with-cpp=xxx
>>
>> and no errors were reported (xxx is not a placeholder, but the
>> actual non existent name I have used).
>>
>> CPP support was added in revision (hg) 286, but was only declared.
>> Was the CPP variable ever used?
>
> As far as I can see, it's still used in auto/lib/md5/make and
> auto/lib/sha1/make.  And it's actually needed when using md5
> library at least from openssl-0.9.7/crypto/md5.
>

Right, sorry.

I did not noticed that a separate make was called when building md5 and 
sha1.


Regards  Manlio Perillo