Hi, On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 03:28:46PM +0000, Mr Dash Four wrote: > The Alon's version of "openvpn 2.3_alpha1" is very different from > "openvpn 2.3_alpha1" downloaded from the official openvpn git repository > using the same tag! If you do not believe me - take a look for yourself.
This is well understood.
The C sources are (basically) the same, but in Alon's tree, the build
system has been re-built from scratch, from "something that sort-of works"
to something new, which is more flexible, and (most important here) handles
cross-building including all the dependencies in a fully automated way.
As soon as the rest of the OpenVPN developers agree on all the details,
Alon's changes will be integrated into the "main" openvpn git.
> I don't mind Alon (or anybody else for that matter) altering the openvpn
> source code and its structure, because at the end of the day it is an
> open source project, but to give it a name like "openvpn 2.3_alpha1"
> clearly implying that this is the official "openvpn 2.3_alpha1" source
> without explicitly stating that there were alterations/changes made to
> that source code is clearly very misleading and in this respect Alon is
> no better than the scum out there offering "loaded" source code of
> well-known software products to naive idiots like myself, stupid enough
> to download it.
Alon's new build system was announced here on the list just a few days
ago.
> As for the main topic of this thread - static build of openvpn, the
> following is the last gcc command line which links and creates the final
> openvpn executable (again, using the "standard" openvpn source and not
> the mickey-mouse version Alon is "offering") - judge for yourself
> whether this produces a monolithic, statically-linked openvpn executable:
We don't care. Really. Alon's build system is where the journey is
going to, and we are not going to do piecemeal fixes in the existing
build system.
gert
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