FreshPorts -- security/libgcrypt: General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG

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libgcrypt General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG

1.12.0 security =270 1.11.2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.

Maintainer: cy@FreeBSD.org

Port Added: 2002-10-14 12:39:38

Last Update: 2026-01-31 05:04:34

Commit Hash: d2c9fa5

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License: GPLv2+ LGPL21+

WWW:

https://www.gnupg.org/software/libgcrypt/index.html

Description:

Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers, hash algorithms, MACs, public key algorithms, large integer functions, random numbers and a lot of supporting functions.

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Manual pages:

hmac256(1)

pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist

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@ldconfig
/usr/local/share/licenses/libgcrypt-1.12.0/catalog.mk
/usr/local/share/licenses/libgcrypt-1.12.0/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/libgcrypt-1.12.0/GPLv2+
/usr/local/share/licenses/libgcrypt-1.12.0/LGPL21+
bin/mpicalc
bin/dumpsexp
bin/hmac256
bin/libgcrypt-config
include/gcrypt.h
lib/libgcrypt.a
lib/libgcrypt.so
lib/libgcrypt.so.20
lib/libgcrypt.so.20.7.0
libdata/pkgconfig/libgcrypt.pc
share/man/man1/hmac256.1.gz
share/aclocal/libgcrypt.m4
@owner
@group
@mode

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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)

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Dependency lines:

libgcrypt>0:security/libgcrypt

To install the port:

cd /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt/ && make install clean

To add the package, run one of these commands:

pkg install security/libgcrypt
pkg install libgcrypt

NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.

PKGNAME: libgcrypt

Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.

distinfo:

TIMESTAMP = 1769835694 SHA256 (libgcrypt-1.12.0.tar.bz2) = 0311454e678189bad62a7e9402a9dd793025efff6e7449898616e2fc75e0f4f5 SIZE (libgcrypt-1.12.0.tar.bz2) = 4438947

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):

libgcrypt
ABI	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386	powerpc	powerpc64	powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest	1.11.2	1.11.2	1.8.7	1.11.2	1.11.2	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly	1.11.2	1.11.2	1.10.2	1.11.2	1.11.2	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:14:latest	1.11.2	1.11.2	1.9.4_1	1.11.2	1.11.2	1.9.4_1	-	1.9.4_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	1.11.2	1.11.2	-	1.11.2	1.11.2	1.10.3	1.10.3	1.10.3
FreeBSD:15:latest	1.11.2	1.11.2	n/a	1.11.2	n/a	n/a	1.10.3_1	1.10.3_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	1.11.2	1.11.2	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:16:latest	1.11.2	1.11.2	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-

Dependencies

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Build dependencies:

libgpg-error>=1.32 : security/libgpg-error
makeinfo : print/texinfo

Runtime dependencies:

libgpg-error>=1.32 : security/libgpg-error
indexinfo : print/indexinfo

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Configuration Options:

===> The following configuration options are available for libgcrypt-1.12.0: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation INFO=on: Build and/or install GNU info pages STATIC=on: Build static executables and/or libraries ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

Options name:

security_libgcrypt

USES:

cpe libtool pathfix tar:bzip2 makeinfo

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