[Pvfs2-developers] SSL symbols and PVFS2

[Phil Carns]

What version of PVFS is this and what is the build error?  I've been 
using this option pretty consistently without trouble, but there may be 
a bug in the build process somewhere.

-Phil

Bradley Settlemyer wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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