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Date:      Fri, 1 Jul 2016 21:56:04 +0200
From:      Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: what to do when base openssl isn't suitable
Message-ID:  <5E323927-472D-4313-B1CF-ADFADBCF5FB2@lastsummer.de>
In-Reply-To: <201607011859.u61IxIBt093652@gw.catspoiler.org>
References:  <201607011859.u61IxIBt093652@gw.catspoiler.org>

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Hi Don,

> On 01.07.2016, at 20:59, Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> I've got a port that does not work with base openssl because it looks
> for libssl.pc.  Other than that, I don't think it is picky about what
> flavor of ports ssl is installed.  Because the default version of ssl
> still defaults to base, I don't see a way to get this port to build on
> the cluster, so there is no way to provide binary packages.  That's a
> problem for end users because this port has bunch of huge build
> dependencies.  Thoughts?

Take a look at security/letskencrypt which pins its SSL to LibreSSL from por=
ts, because it won't build with OpenSSL at all. Really nifty reworks happene=
d recently with USES in that regard.


Cheers,
Franco




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