Subject: [bug#55297] [PATCH 0/10] Make adding SSL_CERT_FILE/DIR search paths easier and add some missing ones

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 17:39:30 +0200

Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 13-05-2022 om 17:32 [+0200]:
> However, the last few patches are incorrect in that, for example, w3m
> does not honor these variables by itself (its code doesn’t call getenv):
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ grep -r SSL_CERT_ $(guix build -S w3m)
> /gnu/store/aqdk56qa1lssjs50gvrii47ccc7ibmkp-w3m-0.5.3+git20210102-checkout/rc.c:#define CMT_SSL_CERT_FILE N_("PEM encoded certificate file of client")
> /gnu/store/aqdk56qa1lssjs50gvrii47ccc7ibmkp-w3m-0.5.3+git20210102-checkout/rc.c:     CMT_SSL_CERT_FILE, NULL},
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Instead, it honors them because it’s linked against OpenSSL.
> 
> Likewise for youtube-dl & co.
> 
> So I’m omitting the last few patches that add search paths.

<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/22138> has not been resolved yet though,
so it's still necessary (see experiment in commit message of patch
10/10), though perhaps it could have been worded more precisely.

Greetings,
Maxime.