[openssl-dev] Question about no-* options (no-fips in particular) on 1.1 branch

[Jan Ehrhardt]

Hi Bill,

William A Rowe Jr in gmane.comp.encryption.openssl.devel (Wed, 12 Apr
2017 13:09:05 -0500):
>Did the no-fips option get removed by-design? Are the no-*
>corollaries going to be dropped going forwards?
>
>../src/openssl-1.1.0git/config shared no-fips --libdir=lib
>--prefix=/opt/openssl110
>
>Operating system: x86_64-whatever-linux2
>Configuring for linux-x86_64
>Configuring OpenSSL version 1.1.0f-dev (0x10100060L)
>***** Unsupported options: no-fips

fips is not supported in OpenSSL 1.1 yet, so my best guess is that both
fips and no-fips are removed by-design.
-- 
Jan