Apologies, yes you're right. The LD_LIBRARY_PATH was actually just for me
to test the different version of openssl from the console and not necessary
at all as part of exim.
Thanks for pointing that out!
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 6:13 PM Viktor Dukhovni via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 09:44:59AM +0000, Ian B via Exim-users wrote:
>
> > In the meantime I think I've just got it working ok with exporting
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH and CC=gcc -std=gnu99 -lrt -I/usr/local/ssl/
> > -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/ssl/lib (not even sure those
> are
> > correct just atm)
>
> When building the custom OpenSSL, I don't find it necessary to do
> anything with CC, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ... just:
>
> $ dstpath=... # whatever
> $ libpath=$dstpath/lib # or $dstpath/lib64, ...
> $ Configure --prefix=$dstpath -Wl,-rpath,$libpath linux-x86_64-rpk
> $ make # -j<pick-a-number-cpus>
> $ make test
> $ sudo make install_sw
>
> When building other software against the non-default OpenSSL, you may
> need to tweak CFLAGS and LDFLAGS in various ways to make sure that:
>
> * CFLAGS has -I$dstpath/include
> * LDFLAGS has -L$libpath -Wl,-rpath,$libpath
>
> For example, my Fedora shell script for configuring a Postfix build
> is essentially:
>
> OSSL=/opt/openssl/3.2
>
> CCARGS="-I${OSSL}/include -DUSE_TLS -DHAS_PCRE=2 -DHAS_CDB -DNO_NIS"
> AUXLIBS="$AUXLIBS -L${OSSL}/lib64 -Wl,-rpath,${OSSL}/lib64 -lssl
> -lcrypto -ldb"
> AUXLIBS_PCRE="-lpcre2-8"
> AUXLIBS_CDB="-lcdb"
>
> make -f Makefile.init \
> "CCARGS=$CCARGS" "OPT=-O -g" \
> AUXLIBS="$AUXLIBS" \
> AUXLIBS_PCRE="$AUXLIBS_PCRE" \
> AUXLIBS_CDB="$AUXLIBS_CDB" \
> makefiles
>
> The details will be different for Exim, but the basic principles should
> be the same.
>
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> Viktor.
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