Are we going to have a no-NTS-KE build option?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> Eric said:
> > What would a build option gain us?  Is there some specific prerequisite
> > you're worried about? 
> 
> It seemed like good insurance.  If we want to fix a bug, you seem to prefer to 
> release the current git head rather than making a branch.

I do.  But I'm not worried that introducing NTS code will destablized non-NTS
code, either.

> There is a specific example.  Daniel's libaes_siv doesn't build on NetBSD.
> 
> /home/murray/ntpsec/libaes_siv/aes_siv.c:114:24: error: expected declaration 
> specifiers or '...' before '__builtin_constant_p'
>  static inline uint64_t bswap64(uint64_t x) { return __builtin_bswap64(x); }

We need to fix that whether or not there's a build option.
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