[gnutls-devel] --with-nettle-mini is ineffective

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> skribis:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
>> AFAICS, --with-nettle-mini does not have the desired effect since
>> ‘configure’ unconditionally looks for Nettle with pkg-config.
>
> Hi,
>  Nettle-mini is a version of nettle without the gmp dependency. That
> is used mainly in the openwrt system where you may want to trade
> performance for space. That version of the library is not included in
> gnutls, and that's why detection of the library is still required.

The lib/nettle directory contains mini-nettle, doesn’t it?  Why is the
full-blown Nettle still required, then?

Ludo’.