On 02/24/2013 11:45 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
As you may be aware OpenSSL had some API changes which we dutifully
wrote #if-#else conditional code for using the mechanisms provided by
OpenSSL for the purpose.
Then somebody in Fedora or RHEL decided to back-port the functionality
into their older OpenSSL version. This corrupted the Fedora 17 release
for a short while, just long enough to corrupt the main RHEL 5.* and
6.* distributions, and it now seems to have spread into the CentOS 6.*
distributions as well.
We are urgently needing somebody to write a ./configure-time test to
detect these old corrupted OpenSSL packages which present 1.0.0d API
functionality and AC_DEFINE a macro which can be added to the
#if-#else conditionals such that they are built using the 1.0.0d+ API
of OpenSSL.
Any takers?
Amos
and we do have a basic view of the versions of openssl if I remember
right in some bugzilla reports.
how *urgently* is it needed? weeks? idea?
Eliezer
