[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4445] Configure does not honor enable-afalgeng

Kurt Roeckx via RT rt at openssl.org
Fri Mar 18 22:59:20 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 01:18:04PM +0000, Matt Caswell wrote:
> 
> 
> On 18/03/16 12:52, noloader at gmail.com via RT wrote:
> > I've configured with:
> > 
> >     ./config enable-afalgeng
> > 
> > When I run the self tests, I see:
> > 
> >   ../test/recipes/30-test_afalg.t ........... skipped: test_afalg not
> > supported for this build
> 
> You should not need to use enable-afalgeng at all. It is enabled by
> default unless for some reason it is not supported by your system.
> Reasons that it might not be supported:
> 
> - You are not running Linux
> - You are not building "shared" or have otherwise disabled dynamic-engines
> - uname reports a kernel version less than 4.1.0
> - Your linux headers are less than 4.1.0

Please note that the kernel something is build on might not be the
same as it's going to run on, so checking the current running
kernel version doesn't make sense for compiling it.  Is there some
runtime detection of support in the kernel?


Kurt


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