From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bodo Moeller)
bmoeller> This inconsistency exists for historical reasons (as usual).
bmoeller> The SSLeay installation directory layout is similar to what you now
bmoeller> get when using --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl. If someone wants
bmoeller> binaries, libraries, and header files to be installed to 'standard'
bmoeller> locations (such as /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, and
bmoeller> /usr/local/include, respectively), they probably don't want the
bmoeller> SSLeay/OpenSSL specific stuff to reside directly under /usr/local;
bmoeller> this is why --prefix=/whatever sets openssldir to /whatever/ssl.
OK, that makes sense.
bmoeller> If we are going to change this, then we should always use
bmoeller> openssldir = prefix + "/ssl" (or prefix + "/openssldir")
bmoeller> because the openssldir = prefix variant doesn't make sense
bmoeller> if the directory is not exclusive to OpenSSL.
Hmm, what we could do is only have a unidirectional dependency as in:
prefix defaults to "/usr/local"
openssldir defaults to "/usr/local/ssl"
if prefix is given, openssldir becomes prefix + "/ssl"
if openssldir is given, that's the value it gets.
The combinations would then be:
neither --prefix nor --openssldir given =>
$prefix = "/usr/local", $openssldir = "/usr/local/ssl"
only --prefix=/foo given =>
$prefix = "/foo", $openssldir = "/foo/ssl"
only --openssldir=/foo given =>
$prefix = "/usr/local", $openssldir = "/foo"
both --prefix=/foo and --openssldir=/foo given =>
$prefix = "/foo", $openssldir = "/foo"
Note that the last combination is perfectly reasonable if you want to
have OpenSSL in a structure resembling the usual /opt stuff in Unixen
like Solaris (and other SysV systems, I assume).
The logic to get this right becomes also very simple. Instead of the
current:
$openssldir="/usr/local/ssl" if ($openssldir eq "" and $prefix eq "");
$prefix=$openssldir if $prefix eq "";
chop $openssldir if $openssldir =~ /\/$/;
chop $prefix if $prefix =~ /\/$/;
$openssldir=$prefix . "/ssl" if $openssldir eq "";
$openssldir=$prefix . "/" . $openssldir if $openssldir !~ /^\//;
we would get:
$prefix="/usr/local" if ($prefix eq "");
chop $prefix if $prefix =~ /\/$/;
$openssldir=prefix."/ssl" if ($openssldir eq "");
Voil�! That's even understandable...
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