Stock OpenSSL is multithread or not?

Olivier Nicole on at cs.ait.ac.th
Mon Mar 30 02:09:08 PDT 2009


Hi,

> I am trying to use Pound (/usr/ports/www/pound). From the
> documentation I read;
> 
>     Warning: as Pound is a multi-threaded program it requires a
>     version of OpenSSL with thread support. This is normally the case
>     on Linux and Solaris (for example) but not on *BSD.
> 
> Is that still true on FreeBSD 6.4 RELENG amd64? And should I install

I think I have my answer as pound would not work with the default
OpenSSL, but would work with the port OpenSSL, the stock on comes with
no threads, while the port build by default with threads...

Olivier


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