[issue38794] Setup: support linking openssl statically

[Lukas Vacek]

Lukas Vacek <lucas.vacek at gmail.com> added the comment:

Fair enough.

Btw. I picked versions 3.7 and up to show this feature should eventually be backported to older CPython versions that depend on OpenSSL >= 1.0.2. 

This feature is to avoid relying on rpath and relying on a seperate installation to be installed in specific location in your target system. Also there is no Tools/ssl/multissl.py in current cpython master.

I believe it's much preferably for administrators to use static linking in this case, but if you think it's not worth it, that's fine. Please close the related PR in the github with your explanation. Thank you.

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