[Pvfs2-developers] SSL symbols and PVFS2

[Bradley Settlemyer]

PVFS didn't build for me at all when I tried that option.  Either distclean
is broken, or PVFS now requires those symbols.

Cheers,
Brad


On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Phil Carns <carns at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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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