Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium

Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency.

configure.ac

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ PKG_CHECK_MODULES([EDITLINE], [libeditline], [CXXFLAGS="$EDITLINE_CFLAGS $CXXFLA
     [AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires libeditline; it was not found via pkg-config, but via its header, but required functions do not work. Maybe it is too old? >= 1.14 is required.])])
 ])
 
-# Look for libsodium, an optional dependency.
+# Look for libsodium.
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SODIUM], [libsodium], [CXXFLAGS="$SODIUM_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
 
 # Look for libbrotli{enc,dec}.

doc/manual/src/installation/prerequisites-source.md

@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@
     obtained from the its repository
     <https://github.com/troglobit/editline>.
 
+  - The `libsodium` library for verifying cryptographic signatures
+    of contents fetched from binary caches.
+    It can be obtained from the official web site
+    <https://libsodium.org>.
+
   - Recent versions of Bison and Flex to build the parser. (This is
     because Nix needs GLR support in Bison and reentrancy support in
     Flex.) For Bison, you need version 2.6, which can be obtained from

perl/configure.ac

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ perlarchname=$($perl -e 'use Config; print $Config{archname};')
 AC_SUBST(perllibdir, [${libdir}/perl5/site_perl/$perlversion/$perlarchname])
 AC_MSG_RESULT($perllibdir)
 
-# Look for libsodium, an optional dependency.
+# Look for libsodium.
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SODIUM], [libsodium], [CXXFLAGS="$SODIUM_CFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"])
 
 # Check for the required Perl dependencies (DBI and DBD::SQLite).