[openssl-users] Engines on Mac OS X

[Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL]

Ouch... Spelling Corrector doing is best. The text below should've been:

"... spitting out a pile of error..."

Oh well. Hard to admit, but sometimes automatic correctors are even more eloquent than me, and seem freeer in their choice of words too. ;-)

Regards,
Uri

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 3, 2018, at 14:31, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL <uri at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> If it builds a dummy engine - then shouldn't a dummy engine respond gracefully to requests with something like "sorry I can't do anything useful", instead of spitting outa puke of error messages in response to "openssl engine -t capi"?
> 
> Regards,
> Uri
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 3, 2018, at 12:27, Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org> wrote:
>> 
>> In message <62B8AA9B-D6D2-4F33-94C5-7BFE11E465A0 at akamai.com> on Mon, 3 Sep 2018 13:56:41 +0000, "Salz, Rich" <rsalz at akamai.com> said:
>> 
>>>> Gotcha. In that case why does it get built on Mac? I.e., why
>>>> doesn’t the build process exclude it automatically?
>>> 
>>> Beats me. It ends up being a zero-length object file, more or
>>> less. Perhaps Richard Levitte knows.
>> 
>> We've made it conditional in the source file rather than the build
>> configuration, so on non-MSWindows platforms, it becomes a minimal
>> shared object with an entry point that fails unconditionally.
>> 
>> We should obviously rethink that strategy...
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Richard
>> 
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