[openssl-dev] Upcoming build system change

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Sat Jan 23 20:35:58 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 09:27:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> Last but not least, we have another problem with enginesdir.  To allow a
> rolling release cycle, we have to support multiple versions of openssl
> in parallel.  The problem here is that the enginesdir needs to be
> versioned to allow per-openssl version engines.  The build scripts don't
> allow for this.  Right now we're using a patch as the below one to tweak
> the configury to allow specifying the engines dir during build time.
> Would it hurt terribly to include something like the below patch?

In general, I would like to have a directory for the engines that
relates to OSSL_DYNAMIC_OLDEST.


Kurt



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