How to make python pick up my new-and-shiny openssl shared object

[Fetchinson .]

On 8/8/18, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> On 2018-08-08 00:07, Fetchinson . via Python-list wrote:
>> The highest version of openssl available on my system is 1.0.0 which
>> is not good enough for pip these days (or github for that matter). So
>> I've installed 1.1.0 to a custom location /home/fetch/opt. But if I do
>>
>> import ssl
>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
>>
>> it still shows me that it is using the system default 1.0.0. How do I
>> tell python to use /home/fetch/opt for the ssl module? Note that I
>> have /home/fetch/opt as the first entry in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Also, I
>> know for a fact that I don't need to recompile python for this so
>> please don't suggest "just recompile python with the new openssl
>> library" as the solution :)
>
> Hi,
>
> first of all, you need to use the library directory for LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> It's the directory that contains libssl*.so, probably
> /home/fetch/opt/lib or /home/fetch/opt/lib64.

Yes, you are right, thanks. But it still doesn't work, most probably
because of the reason you mention below.


> You may also have to recompile Python yourself. OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not
> ABI-compatible with OpenSSL 1.0.0. In case you want to use OpenSSL
> 1.1.0, you must update to a more recent version of Python, too. OpenSSL
> 1.1.0 support was added in 2.7.13.

Ach, you are right again! I thought openssl was fully backward
compatible, if not, then indeed I need to recompile, which I'll do
now.

Thanks a lot,
Daniel


> Christian
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