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OpenSSL should not depend on Perl

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Message #43 received at 22831-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 22831-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22831: OpenSSL should not depend on Perl
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:24:15 +0100

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 02:35:12PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:
>>> 
>>> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:05:29PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> >> Commit 784d6e91 changed OpenSSL such that it does not depend on Perl,
>>> >> but one of the subsequent upgrades broke it:
>>> >
>>> > Bisecting, I narrowed it down to:
>>> > 86c8f1daf8ed10f13f2b1e973a28845629b8ce47
>>> > (gnu: openssl: Update to 1.0.2e [fixes CVE-2015-{3193,3194,3195}].).
>>> >
>>> > I'll get the openssl sources corresponding to the good and bad commmits
>>> > and try to figure out what changed that pulled perl back in.
>>> 
>>> Awesome.  Hopefully we can apply the fix when we upgrade OpenSSL this
>>> Tuesday.
>>
>> 'openssl-c-rehash.patch' is being applied, but at some point in the
>> build process the change is reverted.
>
> In the source, I see:
>
> $ find -name c_rehash\*
> ./tools/c_rehash
> ./tools/c_rehash.in
> ./doc/apps/c_rehash.pod
>
> Could it be that the unpatched one ends up being installed or something?

Indeed.  Fixed in caeadfd, though without #:allowed-references—it’ll be
more convenient to use #:disallowed-references when it’s implemented.

Ludo’.

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