[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

Christian Heimes added the comment: Python 3.7+ uses https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_check_openssl.html to detect OpenSSL. It provides --with-openssl=DIR or can utilize pkg-config. I'm closing this feature issue as duplicate of #32598. --

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

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[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: machyniak: Your patch appears to be missing the diff to configure.ac. -- stage: patch review -> needs patch ___ Python tracker

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

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[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: We use Modules/Setup.local to build the _ssl and _hashlib modules against our an SSL library of our choosing at work using a Setup entry like this: _ssl _ssl.c $(PY_CORE_CFLAGS) -DUSE_SSL -I%{SSL_ROOT}/include \ -Wl,--version-script,_ssl.lds \

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

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Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Isn't Modules/Setup used for builtin modules? The proposed configure flags are easier to find because similar flags are used by other projects using autoconf. Note that on OSX you could use CFLAGS=-I/path/to/ssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/ssl/lib, because

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

Ned Deily added the comment: Isn't Modules/Setup used for builtin modules? One of the better kept secrets of Python is that Modules/Setup can be used for building shared modules as well. I didn't know that until looking into it recently as a result of RDM's comment. See Issue17095.

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

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New submission from Pavel Machyniak: There is no easy way to build python with custom openssl build. This can lead to miscellaneous problems (like segmentation faults) in various situations/configurations (see eg.

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

R. David Murray added the comment: Aren't things like this normally accomplished by editing Modules/Setup? Granted, that's not the most convenient build API... -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21541] Provide configure option --with-ssl for compilation with custom openssl

Pavel Machyniak added the comment: This is the proposed patch (compared 2 trees src upd where src is latest release 3.4.1, upd is my working). Changes are in: configure, setup.py. Please review it and hopefully integrate to future releases. -- keywords: +patch versions: +Python 3.4