Bug 35262 – libsoup-1.99.x defaults to link openssl static

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description foser (RETIRED) 2003-12-07 08:42:31 UTC]

libsoup statically links to openssl when selected, gnutls ssl doesn't. I'm not sure if it's supposed to do that or not, the configure help suggests not. I don't think it's a good thing to link static by default when not really needed for a good reason.

[Comment 1 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2004-12-11 17:00:21 UTC]

Foser, is this still applicable in the latest version?

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2004-12-12 06:22:26 UTC]

a simple ldd of the libsoup lib should give the requested, but i don't have openssl support, so I can't tell right now.

[Comment 3 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2004-12-12 06:30:09 UTC]

Gnome people, if I'm not mistaken this problem is not applicable to the 2.x ebuilds. Is that correct?

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2004-12-12 10:27:56 UTC]

correct 2.x uses gnutls exclusively, it was a problem with openssl.

[Comment 5 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 10:41:34 UTC]

So what does this mean? That 1.99.x should be fixed? that 2.x should be marked 
stable on all arches? that this bug can be closed? any permutation of the above?

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2005-01-06 04:28:10 UTC]

ideally 1.99 should still be fixed, but I don't think it's worth spending the time. 1.99 & 2 are slotted different so we can't use the one for the other.

[Comment 7 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2005-05-30 00:22:54 UTC]

What happens is that if libsoup-1.99.x is compiled against openssl, it creates
an auxiliary binary, /usr/libexec/libsoup-ssl-proxy which is the component
linked to the openssl shared library.

If libsoup is compiled against gnutls, no such proxy is created, and
libsoup-2.0.so is linked directly.