diff --git a/lib/README.NSS b/lib/README.NSS deleted file mode 100644 index e772fecdb..000000000 --- a/lib/README.NSS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ - libcurl with NSS - ================ - -Author: Daniel Stenberg -Date: June 24, 2008 - -NSS home => http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ - -libcurl can be built to use the NSS libraries for SSL/TLS. Invoke configure ---without-ssl --with-nss. - -The source code in lib/nss.c currently cause a compiler warning due to the -lack of a prototype. The prototype is provided by the public header provided -by NSS called "base64.h". But since we use a private header in libcurl named -identically, we cannot include the NSS one. - -This problem persists because: - -* NSS doesn't use a properly established separate subdir for their include - files. Instead different distros have put them in /usr/include/nss and - /usr/include/nss3 etc. - -* The pkg-config output for NSS provides a full -I path to the nss include dir, - so we cannot #include or . This too may be due - to how distros do it. - -* I tried getting the (all new in June 2008) NSS 3.12 tarball to check how it - behaves out-of-box but this wouldn't even build - complaining on missing - files that aren't included in the tarball. The tarball doesn't even include - build instuctions but you must hunt them down on their web site. - -Due to these design problems we may of course get further similar problems in -the future, but I hope we can work them out somehow along the way.