M2Crypto-0.20.2, SWIG-2.0.0, and OpenSSL-1.0.0a build problem

[geremy condra]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 14:10, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>>   I had a similar problem back in 2007.  See
>>
>> http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/613336-more-m2crypto-build-problems
>>
>> Also see
>>
>> http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/711381-m2crypto-0-18-new-version-same-old-build-bugs
>>
>>   There have been problems with SWIG. There have been problems with
>> how OpenSSL was built (with or without elliptic curve crypto support).
>> And there were some issues with building on 64-bit hardware running
>> 32-bit operating systems, because the build script was checking
>> the wrong system configuration parameter.
>>
>>   Not sure what problem you're having with Mac OS X.  From the
>> errors, though, I suspect that not all the components involved
>> are consistent with 32/64 bit width.
>
> Thanks, I'm sure everything is consistent with the architecture, i.e.
> everything is 64 bit. The last time I build M2Crypto on this box was
> against SWIG-1.3.x and OpenSSL-0.9.8? So one of these (or both) has
> broken something... Looks like I'll have to revert each one at a
> time...
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam

The move to 1.0 was a PITA for me, although I appreciate the improved
EVP_PKEY support it will probably break a chunk of code.

Geremy Condra