[issue21356] Support LibreSSL (instead of OpenSSL): make RAND_egd optional

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Fri Sep 12 20:05:57 CEST 2014


Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Unless I'm missing some major point, AC_CHECK_FUNC should be good enough.

Building extension modules such as ssl doesn't involve autoconf.

> Do you want to make silly assumptions on API depending on provider name, and then add extra conditionals for versions?

Arguably it would be better if LibreSSL exposed the same API as OpenSSL. We're not responsible for the discrepancy here.

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