OpenSSL STATUS Last modified at
- ______________ $Date: 1999/01/02 16:28:51 $
+ ______________ $Date: 1999/01/30 12:06:16 $
DEVELOPMENT STATE
IN PROGRESS
- o Ben is folding in his patches
-
NEEDS PATCH
OPEN ISSUES
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
- 2. The massive symlinking of Makefile.ssl -> Makefile:
- First the `make -f Makefile.ssl links' command is nasty, second the
- whole process is slow and third it seems to be done without real
- need. And forth, the dependecies are currently missing. And fifth,
- it's complicated to always go to the top-level in order to get the
- local variables overriden.
- Suggestion: Rename Makefile.ssl to Makefile.in, add
- dependencies to Makefile.in and change the build process
- to _generate_ Makefile out of Makefile.in by
- substituting variables like CC, etc. This solves the
- above problems.
-
- 3. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
+ 2. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
change it for us when we want to incorporate the code.
Status: Ralf +1, Stephen -0
+
+ WISHES
+
+ o Damien Miller:
+ "How about making the each of the locations compile-time defined. I
+ would like to (for example) put binaries in /usr/bin, configuration
+ data, certs and keys in /etc/openssl/certs and /etc/openssl/keys, etc.
+ This would also be a great boon to binary package makers. The
+ SSLeay-0.9.1b RPM already includes some patches which do some of this.
+ I can forward them if you wish."
+