Call for testing: OpenSSH 9.7

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Thu Mar 7 11:57:45 AEDT 2024


On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 09:39:31AM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 02:19, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2024, The Doctor wrote:
> >
> > > Showstopper problem!
> > >
> > > I want configure to work with /usr/local/bin/openssl and not /usr/bin/openssl
> >
> > You can use --with-ssl-dir for this. --with-ssl-dir=/foo will have
> > configure try /foo/bin/openssl and /foo/apps/openssl. Otherwise it
> > just searches $PATH.
> >
> > Nothing has changed here for the last couple of releases.
> 
> I changed it to better support OpenSSL directories in non-default paths:
> https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/26cab41c05
> 
> Just reversing the search path order will cause other problems,
> though, since there is no guarantee the bin/openssl in a non-default
> location is functional (eg if its libraries are not in the system
> default runtime linker path and it's built without -rpath, which it's
> usually not).
>
As long as /foo/bin/openssl is picked up, that should be the resolution.

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