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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:36:14 +0200
From: Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: RFC: add more information to --list=build-info output?
On 07/19/2012 04:59 PM, jfoug wrote:
>>> Add:
>>> OpenSSL version, and bit size (if that can be found).
>>
>> Do we link OpenSSL dynamically? In that case, I'd consider that run time
>> info instead of build-info.
>> This would justify a --list=run-time-info.
>>
>> I'll have to check what happens if I print OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER, and
>> copy the binary that has been built on one machine to another one.
>
> The OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER is a compile time thing. There likely is some
> way to get the version of the runtime instance also.
OK, I've found something
man OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER works :)
OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER(3) OpenSSL
OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER(3)
NAME
OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER, SSLeay, SSLeay_version - get OpenSSL
version number
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/opensslv.h>
#define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER 0xnnnnnnnnnL
#include <openssl/crypto.h>
long SSLeay(void);
const char *SSLeay_version(int t);
...
So, OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER contains the compile time string of the
binary, but SSLeay() should return the library version number.
So, we could print the OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER, and print a warning if
OpenSSL is missing, or if the version number differs (or would we warn
only if the library version is smaller than the compile time version?
> This WOULD be a good check, if they do not match, list this as a warning.
> Even though this would be a run-time check, I think it would be beneficial
> to have the run-time version listed on the -list=build-info, IF that version
> did not match what this image was built with.
Sounds reasonable.
Nevertheless, a --list=run-time-info can be useful.
Various library versions, CPU info, OS and version, available memory,
locale setting (LANG=en_US.UTF-8 / LC_ALL=C) ...
Frank
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