Re: [RFC] OpenSSL capability detection

On 02/24/2013 11:45 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> As you may be aware OpenSSL had some API changes which we dutifully
> wrote #if-#else conditional code for using the mechanisms provided by
> OpenSSL for the purpose.
>
> Then somebody in Fedora or RHEL decided to back-port the functionality
> into their older OpenSSL version. This corrupted the Fedora 17 release
> for a short while, just long enough to corrupt the main RHEL 5.* and
> 6.* distributions, and it now seems to have spread into the CentOS 6.*
> distributions as well.
>
> We are urgently needing somebody to write a ./configure-time test to
> detect these old corrupted OpenSSL packages which present 1.0.0d API
> functionality and AC_DEFINE a macro which can be added to the
> #if-#else conditionals such that they are built using the 1.0.0d+ API
> of OpenSSL.
>
> Any takers?
>
> Amos
>
and we do have a basic view of the versions of openssl if I remember
right in some bugzilla reports.
how *urgently* is it needed? weeks? idea?

Eliezer
Received on Mon Feb 25 2013 - 10:06:26 MST