M2Crypto 0.18 - new version, same old build bugs.

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Thu Sep 20 16:12:29 EDT 2007


Back in March, I posted this:

>     Hit that with OpenSSL.  Red Hat took elliptical curve cryptography
> out of Fedora 6 for patent reasons.  With that missing, M2Crypto won't
> build.  It ought to; the implementor of M2Crypto thought of that, because
> it's an optional feature.  But M2Crypto uses SWIG.  SWIG doesn't normally
> process nested include files.  OpenSSL had changed their configuration
> approach to use nested include files.  So SWIG didn't see the #define that
> said to turn off elliptical curve crypto support.  This resulted in
> compile errors in the 24,000 lines of code that come out of SWIG. 

    That was for M2Crypto 0.17.

    It's still broken in M2Crypto 0.18.

    And there's no RPM or Windows binary.

    Nobody actually uses this stuff, do they?

					John Nagle



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