[openssl-dev] 1.1-pre3 configuration changes

Mon Feb 15 23:54:05 UTC 2016

In message <yCLKu67JgsdAWzu at srv.efca.com> on Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:40:40 -0800, "Erik Forsberg" <erik at efca.com> said:

erik> 
erik> >-- Original Message --
erik> >
erik> >In message <6A2KG6vygF8027u at srv.efca.com> on Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:02:52 -0800, "Erik Forsberg" <erik at efca.com> said:
erik> >
erik> >erik> Sure, attached.
erik> >erik> However, dont think anything wrong with it, I did notice the changes
erik> >erik> and aligned. The question is more how do I incorporate my custom conf file into
erik> >erik> the build system. Copying this conf file into Configrations and running
erik> >erik> make -f Makefile.in TABLE
erik> >erik> results in this
erik> >erik> 
erik> >erik> + cp ../20-efca.conf Configurations
erik> >erik> + make -f Makefile.in TABLE
erik> >erik> make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile.in, line 33: Badly formed macro assignment
erik> >
erik> >Ah-ha!  Using Makefile.in directly like that is not possible any
erik> >more.  The reason is that we've templatised it.  If you look, you'll
erik> >see that there are perl fragments within {- and -} delimiters.  Line
erik> >33 is right in the middle of one of those.
erik> >
erik> >The answer is that you MUST configure first.  We could probably
erik> >clarify that a bit louder (and when I'm looking in INSTALL right now,
erik> >I'm noticing it's lagging behind on the changes.  To be fixed!)
erik> 
erik> That creates the illusion of a chicken and an egg paradox.
erik> You cant configure your custom config until AFTER you have
erik> managed to update the TABLE file.

That's not at all true.  The TABLE file is for your convenience only,
meant as a visual configuration debugging tool which has frankly lost
its value by now.  It was much more valuable in pre-1.1 OpenSSL
versions, as those string configurations are quite hard to read.
Setting up and building OpenSSL doesn't need the TABLE file at all.  I
can't remember that it ever has.

All you have to do to configure your favorit configuration is this:

    perl Configure efca-x64-gcc [options]

That's it.  No TABLE file needed.

erik> I guess you can configure a standard target, then put in your
erik> custom conf file, then run make TABLE, then re-configure the
erik> custom target. Will that be the recommended process ?

Nope.  Just put your custom 20-efca.conf in Configurations and fire
off the Configure command demonstrated above.  I'm afraid you're
complicating things needlessly...

erik> 
erik> >
erik> >erik> GNU make throws a differently worded error on same line.
erik> >
erik> >Yup.  The answer will remain "don't do that, configure first!"
erik> >
erik> >erik> If I manually run 
erik> >erik> perl Configure TABLE > TABLE
erik> >erik> it works OK, at least I can run Configure
erik> >
erik> >Yes.
erik> >
erik> >erik> Another bug is that with pre3, assembler support is broken for solaris64-x86_64-cc
erik> >erik> configurations. First assembler file x86_64cpuid.pl gets tons of syntax errors.
erik> >erik> Havent looked too deep yet. Has been working fine for ever.
erik> >
erik> >Ok, that's to look into.  Mind giving us a log?
erik> 
erik> will start a new thread on that.
erik> 
erik> >
erik> >erik> My platform is Solaris 11 x64 using native SunStudio btw
erik> >erik> Will try gcc too.
erik> >erik> 
erik> >erik> >-- Original Message --
erik> >erik> >
erik> >erik> >In message <tslDiScb5sg0qki at srv.efca.com> on Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:30:48 -0800, "Erik Forsberg" <erik at efca.com> said:
erik> >erik> >
erik> >erik> >erik> 
erik> >erik> >erik> OK, now I'm confused, in pre2 I started using personal .conf
erik> >erik> >erik> files with my specific build configuration, that no longer works in pre3
erik> >erik> >erik> 
erik> >erik> >erik> If I do the same as before, I copied my conf file into Configurations
erik> >erik> >erik> subdirectory then ran make -f Makefile.in TABLE to generate a new TABLE
erik> >erik> >erik> file containing my configuration among all other configs. Then I ran
erik> >erik> >erik> a normal Configure
erik> >erik> >erik> 
erik> >erik> >erik> Doing that with pre3, make TABLE bombs out because the Makefile.in file
erik> >erik> >erik> has stuff in it that must be processed by perl first (line 33 is first case)
erik> >erik> >erik> 
erik> >erik> >erik> How should I update the TABLE file in pre3 ?
erik> >erik> >
erik> >erik> >Some changes have been made, it's true.  Would you mind letting me
erik> >erik> >have a look at your .conf file to see for myself?
erik> >erik> >
erik> >erik> >-- 
erik> >erik> >Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
erik> >erik> >OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
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