[openssl-dev] Configure --prefix and --openssldir

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 7:06 PM +0100 Richard Levitte 
<levitte at openssl.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to ask developers and packagers out there, how are the
> configuration options --prefix and --openssldir working out for you?
>
> When I look at them today, they look...  well, a bit aged, and could
> use a refreshment.  But before doing anything with these options, I'd
> like to know how you guys are using them, and how they could be
> better.

For Zimbra 8.7, we are doing:

./Configure no-idea enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-ssl2 \
  no-hw --prefix=/opt/zimbra/common --libdir=lib 
--openssldir=/opt/zimbra/common/etc/ssl \
  shared linux-x86_64 -g -O2 -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS

For previous versions of Zimbra, we did:

./Configure no-idea enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-ssl2 no-hw 
--prefix=/opt/zimbra/openssl-$(OPENSSL_VERSION) --libdir=lib \
        shared $(PLAT) -g -O2 -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS; \

So we've only just recently started using openssldir, but it does exactly 
what we want it to do. ;)

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Platform Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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