Re: Compiling Coreutils with LibreSSL (instead of OpenSSL)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/12/17 11:47, Matias Fonzo wrote:
> Hi Assaf,
> 
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:12:52 -0700
> Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Just a quick note (to myself and others who try this):
>>
>> Using "./configure --with-openssl=yes" uses the system's default
>> libcrypto library.
>>
>> If one wants to use a non-default library (e.g. LibreSSL installed
>> in a non-default location), these are possible steps:
>>
> 
> Interesting.  Which are the benefits to compile the coreutils against
> a SSL library?.  Also, I would like to apply the same question but for
> GMP.

openssl is optional for us, and we just use openssl to
provide the machine specific optimized hash functions like sha1 etc.
openssl tends to be the focus of such optimization efforts.
Another point worth noting is that openssl is moving
licence to apache2 which would mean we could enable its use unconditionally.
https://license.openssl.org/

cheers,
Pádraig