On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:36 +1200, Michal Ludvig wrote: > Hi, > > several users have complained that the padlock engine is not usable in > new distros like Fedora 5 or OpenSUSE 10.1 that come with 0.9.8a. There > was apparently some reorganization of engines to dynamically loadable > modules. I haven't followed OpenSSL development for a while, could you > give be a brief overview of what needs to be done to have PadLock usable > again? > > BTW Fedora people came up with something like: > http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/padlock/openssl-0.9.8a-padlock.patch > which makes the padlock engine static again (and usable again ;-). Is > that an acceptable approach? I somehow doubt so. What's the correct way > to fix it? This patch of course doesn't make this engine static - it has always been static. It just makes it initialized by ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(). Of course the best thing would be to convert it to be dynamic engine. -- Tomas Mraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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