libcrypto does not break macOS build

[janstary]

This is 5.6.0 on a macOS 14.5. Running ./configure --help says

--enable-libcrypto      use libcrypto MD5 if available (breaks Mac build)

but running ./configure --enable-libcrypto makes it build just fine.

[dbry]

Hi Jan, sorry for the delayed response!

At one point this was definitely broken because the include file openssl/md5.h seemed to be missing on Mac. I don't know if that got added at some point or the include path wasn't being set correctly, but interesting that it's no longer broken.

However the other reason I decided to ditch this is it was adding complexity with virtually no benefit. I never saw the MD5 calculation improve more than 5% using the library, and even in the worst case the MD5 calculation is only a small portion of the total time. The tradeoff didn't seem worth it, especially since MD5 is user-enabled.

The less I have to worrry about going forward the better.... 😄