On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, James Keenan via RT wrote:
> On Sat Mar 15 10:50:04 2008, doughera wrote:
>
> > Ah, I think this one is easy: If I recall correctly, the SHA256_CTX
> > stuff was added in openssl version 0.9.8; I'll bet your system has
> > 0.9.7.
> >
>
> Yes.
>
> OpenSSL> version
> OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
>
> > Two reasonable fixes:
> >
> > 1. (Easy) Change the test program that Configure.pl runs to use
> > SHA256_CTX. That way, the test program will actually test what parrot
> > will be using.
> >
> > 2. (Hard) Have parts of the "crypto" support conditionally included,
> > depending on whether or not the user has that specific functionality
> > available.
> >
>
> While (1) is something that François, who wrote the step class, could
> probably do, I suspect that (2) is a discussion the project will have to
> have.
Why wait for someone else? This trivial patch (untested, but it really
should be this easy) ought to implement (1). This way you can proceed
without waiting for any broader discussion.
diff -u -r parrot-svn/config/auto/crypto/crypto.in
parrot-andy/config/auto/crypto/crypto.in
--- parrot-svn/config/auto/crypto/crypto.in Fri Mar 14 11:23:37 2008
+++ parrot-andy/config/auto/crypto/crypto.in Sat Mar 15 18:43:58 2008
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <openssl/opensslv.h>
+#include <openssl/sha.h> /* For SHA256_CTX */
#include <openssl/err.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
+ SHA256_CTX c; /* Only available in 0.9.8 and later */
unsigned long dummy = ERR_get_error();
printf ("%s\n", OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT);
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
