[LEDE-DEV] MacOS X SSL check

[Jo-Philipp Wich]

Hi Waldemar,

including OpenSSL (or any other compatible implementation) as host build
has been discussed several times in the past.

Personally I mostly worry about the required build time and the fact
that we already rebuild large chunks of the userland (awk, sed, grep,
find, ...) but I guess thats the price one has to pay for avoiding
runtime feature detection and other autoconf-like mechanisms...

So including a {Open,Libre}SSL as host build confined to Darwin only for
a start would be fine with me personally. Iiirc various devs use Macs
for development primarily so it'll likely receive enough testing
exposure to not bitrot.

~ Jo

On 05/25/2016 10:50 AM, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not able to compile LEDE on my Mac.
> Apple removed OpenSSL from latest Xcode.
> I can install openssl from MacPorts and extend
> HOST_CFLAGS to use /opt/local/include and /opt/local/lib, but
> then later GDB does not compile, because it conflicts
> with something in my /opt/local/include installed via 
> MacPorts. U-Boot requires SSL for some host tools,
> so the cleanest solution to me, would be inclusion of
> openssl or libressl to tools/ and provide it by LEDE
> while compiling.
> 
> What you think about it? Would you accept a patch?
> Should it depend on Darwin, or should it detect if
> ssl.h is found and if not build openssl/libressl?
> 
> Would you prefer libressl over openssl? Libressl is faster
> to compile and more secure, if you ask me.
> 
> best regards
>  Waldemar
> 
> 
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