[Pvfs2-developers] SSL symbols and PVFS2

[Phil Carns]

Hi Brad,

There is a "--without-openssl" option to PVFS that keeps it from using 
those symbols altogether.  That's helped me in a couple of cases where 
it was hard to drag the ssl libraries around.

-Phil

Bradley Settlemyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  Has there been any thought on trying to drag in the symbols from 
> openssl needed for pvfs into the pvfs2.a archive?  Would a quick 
> --add-needed flag to the linker do it, or is that just fantasy on my 
> part.  I understand why it would be bad to do it for a pvfs shared lib, 
> but if you're using the static library, at some level the expection has 
> to be that you aren't also forcing in symbols for the openssl shared object?
> 
>   I mention this, because I'm having to work around pvfs/openssl 
> difficulties with this in hdf5, and flash IO.  Not huge problems, but 
> not beginner level stuff either.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brad
> 
> 
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