OpenSSL import [was: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 mp_machdep.c src/sys/i386/i386 mp_machdep.c]

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:00:44 -0600, Simon L. Nielsen <simon at FreeBSD.org>  
wrote:

> On 2007.11.11 18:42:08 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>
>> While I am here, I am wondering why we don't have openssl.pc import and
>> install (maybe /usr/libdata/pkgconfig)? I think, OpenBSD does install
>> openssl.pc. I think it would be nice if FreeBSD has openssl.pc too for I
>> don't have to add hacks in ports tree to workaround of openssl.pc  
>> doesn't
>> exist.
>
> It's not intentionally that the .pc files are not installed.
>
> From what I can see the .pc files are generated and not just
> distributed with OpenSSL and installed.  Since we in the base system
> doesn't use the OpenSSL build framework/toos somebody(tm) needs to
> find a good way to do this with our build framework.

Ah, I see now that it uses Makefile to generate three *.pc files. I don't  
know exactly how our build framework works. Is it possible to import the  
*.pc files on your own by copy from Makefile or you prefer to use  
openssl's Makefile?

> I will try to have a look at this at some point in a not too distant
> future, but no promises of when.  If it's important to anybody,
> patches are accepted :-).

Cool thanks!

When we have these *.pc files installed, then I am thinking about tweak in  
ports/Mk/bsd.openssl.mk by add something like  
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/libdata/pkgconfig:${LOCALBASE}/libdata/pkgconfig in  
the WITH_OPENSSL_BASE area. I don't know if it will working yet, but we  
will see.

--

After thinking about that more... One thing that got me a bit worry about  
get complicate. If there is other stuff in our base system also need to  
install *.pc file. Let's say bind9.pc (I make up). When a user want to use  
OpenSSL from base system but want to use bind9 from ports rather than base  
system, then that PKG_CONFIG_PATH won't work very well unless we rename  
the name of *.pc file to something like openssl-base.pc. I don't know  
which we should:

   1) Forget about install *.pc files, hack in ports tree.
   2) Go ahead change the name of *.pc file and install these,
      then add simpler hack in ports tree.
   3) Do anyone have any better suggest?

I personal like #2, because it is a lot easier to hack in configure to  
change the name from openssl to openssl-base than #1 way like I did with  
net-p2p/transmission/files/patch-configure .. But... I am up for the vote.  
:-)

Cheers,
Mezz


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