From: Tim Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
tim> It would be much eaiser to test and provide portability patches if
tim> openssl built outside of the source tree.
You can, if you play a little bit with soft links:
mkdir ../ossl-obj; cd ossl-obj
find ../openssl-0.9.6-beta2 -type f -print | \
while read f; do
nf=`echo $f | sed -e 's/^\.\.\/openssl-0.9.6-beta2\///'`
mkdir -p `dirname $nf`
ln -s $f $nf
done
N.B.: I have made no test on the above, it's just to give you an idea
of what you can do.
tim> I was able to build openssl-0.9.5a on
You mean 0.9.6-beta2, I presume?
tim> UnixWare 2.03
tim> UnixWare 2.1.3
tim> UnixWare 7.1.0
tim> Solaris 7
tim> SCO Open Server 5 (5.0.4)
tim> SCO Open Server 3 (3.2v4.2)
tim> Caldera eDesktop 2.4
tim> Red Hat 6.2
tim>
tim> But I did have top make changes to the source code to make it work on some
tim> of the platforms. It's a major pain to have to change the source in 8
tim> different source trees to test all the changes before providing a patch.
Do you intend to send us a patch, or at least tell us what you had to
change? And perhaps on which platforms it worked out-of-the-box and
on which ones you actually had to make changes?
tim> What are the chances of fixing it to build outside of the source tree?
At this point, slim. To close to release to do that. But you could
try the softlink idea... For 0.9.7, perhaps. It all depends a lot on
what the different make implementations can really do.
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