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Message-ID: <7a8cf2dbba1f18547e1772ca90896a0c@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:18:25 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: jumbo pull request #255 (trouble with static builds)

On 12 Apr, 2013, at 1:03 , John Spencer <maillist-johndev@...fooze.de> wrote:

> hi list,
> 
> https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/pull/255
> 
> basically the makefile currently links to -lssl -lcrypto unconditionally.
> when static linking this leads to duplicate symbols from builtin sources
> i.e. MD5_Init, MD4_Init. those are in libcrypto and in jtr source files md5.c and md4.c.
> both files have checks for HAVE_OPENSSL in them.
> so defining these at build time makes them omit their content, i.e. empty object files.
> 
> thus i've added the CFLAG -DHAVE_OPENSSL unconditionally as well.
> this fixes the problem.
> 
> this is one of two possible fixes, the alternative is that a proper check for an installed openssl is done (or the user can choose) and if so add both -DHAVE_OPENSSL to CFLAGS and -lssl -lcrypto to LDFLAGS.

Hi,

I think the HAVE_OPENSSL stuff should be overhauled in general. I welcome any improvements but I'd rather have pull requests made against the bleeding-jumbo as the unstable one is pending a release of Jumbo-8.

magnum

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