On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:00:32AM +0000, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> On 10/11/16 19:31, The Doctor wrote:
> > 1) What is happening with openssl 1.1 and exim 4.88 RC support?
>
> Currently, as you discovered, it does does not build thanks to
> changes in OpenSSL between 1.0 and 1.1
>
> We would have discovered this earlier had someone interested in
> having OpenSSL 1.1 been running a buildfarm animal
> ( http://buildfarm.exim.org/index.html ).
>
> It seems that OpenSSL 1.1 is not yet mainstream in common Linux
> distributions (I checked Fedora 25 beta, and Debian stable).
> It is available in Debian unstable and I will be using that to
> work on. I cannot say right now whether it will be done in time
> for 4.88 release.
>
>
>
>
> PS: Anyone who runs a less-usual platform or tracks bleeding-edge
> distributions: please consider running a buildfarm animal.
>
> We have moved the buildfarm site onto Exim-project controlled
> systems now, so if you signed up on the older site and did not
> get a response, please re-try.
>
> You need internet access; it's all driven by your system not from
> outside. You need to be able to build the Exim source-code, so
> the usual build tools, and an array of libraries. System resources
> used are not big (64MB disk space; a half-hour run which uses
> very little cpu apart from the compile phase, done whenever a
> new commit is noticed in the Exim git, run from cron).
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
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Well 4.87 to 4.88RC2 did not show a problem whne someone
put a patch in for openssl 1.1 ? Is libreSSL also accounted for?
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