Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday, 24. September 2005 15:07, Ian Moore wrote:
>
>> Having done that, nothing's changed - superkaramba still coredumps when I
>> try to load liquid-weather (2 other themes I've tried work though)
>> and kmail still won't accept security certificates permanently and can't
>> use kwallet to remember passwords (but kmail will store them itself).
>
> Is there any particular reason you're using the ports version of openssl at 
> all?
>
> Using the ports version of openssl has a lot of possible pitfalls: 
>
> One is openssl's general non-concern about compatibility between major 
> releases (i.e. bumps of the second number, like 0.9.7->0.9.8).
>
> The other, even more grave one is that FreeBSD does ship openssl in its base 
> system - FreeBSD 5 ships openssl 0.9.7e. If you're using openssl from ports 
> and you have *not* completely disabled and deleted the base-system openssl, 
> you're almost guaranteed to get mixed linkage, which usually works out okay 
> as long as the major version of openssl is the same.
>
> This is no longer the case now however on FreeBSD 5, since the ports version 
> of openssl is now at 0.9.8, while the base version will remain at 0.9.7.
>
> So my suggestion would be either: 
>
> - To not use the ports version of openssl at all - deinstall the port, then 
> portupgrade -r python kdelibs and if you encounter other software that 
> suddenly refuses to run, make sure to try and run it from a shell and watch 
> out for the runtime linker complaining about missing libssl or libcrypto (and 
> if there are any, recompile the respective port).
>
> - To go through the base system directories by hand and delete all things 
> openssl, in particular the libraries and the header files. Then set 
> NO_OPENSSL=true in /etc/make.conf. This however implies that you won't be 
> getting the base system heimdal (kerberos) and the base system openssh 
> either, so you'd need to install them from ports (and preferably delete the 
> base system files) as well.

For understanding:

NO_OPENSSL=true means what?


,----[ manpage make.conf ]
|  NO_OPENSSL    (bool) Set to not build OpenSSL (implies NO_KERBEROS and
|                    NO_OPENSSH).
`----


What means *not build OpenSSL*? Not build it inside base system, oder
not build it from ports?



Heino

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