> > Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > I'm trying to build an HTTPS client app using AWS.Client, but I'm > > getting the dreaded Program_Error telling me SSL isn't supported. > > Yes. > > > Looking at the aws specs, it appears that the debian package defaults > > to using ssl-thin__dummy. I've tried googling on how to change AWS to > > use OpenSSL or GNUTLS, but I can't seem to find how (it doesn't help > > that I get lots of hits om Amazon Web Services). > > If you want to keep having it as a dpkg package, you will have to figure > out how to change the "debian/rules" file appropriately. (I haven't > quite figured it out yet.) > Heh. I already downloaded the package source and was working through it, but my first naive approach (replace __dummy with the wanted SSL library in the project files) threw a compile error; so I put that path on hold until I had more information.
> > Can anyone point me to a good explanation on how to use AWS.Client > > with SSL, preferably OpenSSL, on Debian? > > There is some information in one of the "readme" (or is it "install"?) > files coming with AWS. IIRC you are supposed to change "makefile.conf" > to get it to use OpenSSL or GNUTLS. > There is some information in the readme that it can be built against gnutls, but no instructions on *how*. > Two warnings: > > - It is not legal to distribute AWS compiled with OpenSSL, as the > licenses are incompatible. > Thanks for the warning; as it so happens, I am aware of that; what I am currently trying to build is for internal use only; even better, I'm only building a PoC for myself to see if I even can get it to work, so there will be no distribution in the sense of the licenses. > - It seems that compiling AWS with GNUTLS gives an error of some kind > (just something I read somewhere - I haven't gotten that far > combining AWS and GNUTLS yet). > That's in the readme you mentioned. It apparently overflows something somewhere and throws a segmentation fault. Regards, Mart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
