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Commit 76574a1a authored by Cédric Roux's avatar Cédric Roux
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Revert "fix nettle"

This reverts commit d31634c3.

Laurent Thomas had a problem on one machine with the build_oai
way of checking for nettle.

The problem with the alternative solution of including nettle/bignum.h
is that it is very unclear.

The problem with nettle is that the file nettle/config.h does not
exist for version 2. It was introduced in version 3.

We want to support both versions, but there is an API incompatibility.
So we need an #if #else mechanism.

The file nettle/bignum.h is present in both versions 2 and 3 and it
includes nettle/version.h in the version 3.

So by including this file, we can check for the existence of
NETTLE_VERSION_MAJOR (that comes from nettle/config.h) in the
code.

But as you can see, the reasoning is way too complex.

So it's better to keep the check in cmake_targets/CMakeLists.txt.

As long as we support version 2 this will be the way to go.

It is possible to force a given version in specific non-generic
customized environments.
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