[hybrid] [PATCH] Fix autoconf script for SSL support

Brad Smith brad at comstyle.com
Sun Jul 1 20:27:34 EDT 2012


On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 06:07:14PM +0200, Michael Wobst wrote:
> Prepending "-lcrypto -ssl" to LIBS as well as defining
> "HAVE_LIBCRYPTO" is already done by the AC_CHECK_LIB macro calls
> when the ssl and crypto libraries are tested for existence.
> So adding these two lines just makes things redundant, because this
> is exactly what AC_CHECK_LIB's job is.
> 
> Anyway, I'll take a look on how the configure script behaves on OpenBSD.
> You could also send me the configure.log of the original, unmodified
> configure script.
> 
> -Michael

I see you're right about the setting of HAVE_LIBCRYPTO.

The issue is when you link libssl you have to include libcrypto
otherwise there are undefined symbols from the libcrypto functions
utilized within libssl.

Here is a more appropriate diff to fix the autoconf script.


--- configure.ac.orig	Mon May 28 09:47:48 2012
+++ configure.ac	Sun Jul  1 20:19:58 2012
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ AS_IF([test "$cf_enable_openssl" != "no"],
   AS_IF([test "$cf_openssl_version_ok" = "yes"],
     [AC_MSG_RESULT(found)
 
-    AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_connect)
+    AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_connect,,, -lcrypto)
     AS_IF([test "$ac_cv_lib_ssl_SSL_connect" = "yes"],
       [AC_CHECK_LIB(crypto, RSA_free)])
     ],[AC_MSG_RESULT(no - OpenSSL support disabled)

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