Re: Patch to avoid conflicts with OpenSSL headers

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Hi Adam,

Thanks for the patch, but I'm reluctant to apply it because any existing software using the MD5 implementation in Cyrus SASL would be broken by this change. Also, OpenSSL and Cyrus SASL have co-existed for quite some time and the two MD5_CTX haven't been a big problem as far as I know, but I could be wrong.

I've cc'd the cyrus-devel list to see if others have opinions.


On 01/29/2016 03:16 PM, Adam Langley via Cyrus-sasl wrote:
I'm not sure of your preferred process for submitting patches, so
please advise if this isn't it.

The attached git patch renames the MD5_CTX structure to avoid
conflicts with OpenSSL:

     Rename MD5_CTX to SASL_MD5_CTX.

     Both this code and OpenSSL picked up the same MD5 naming from
     twenty-five years ago. Since C doesn't have namespaces, this causes
     conflicts when headers from cyrus-sasl and OpenSSL are included in the
     same file. This is fairly common and, indeed, occurs within several
     plugins included in cyrus-sasl.

     This change renames the MD5_CTX structure in cyrus-sasl to SASL_MD5_CTX
     to avoid this conflict. It also removes the workarounds that several
     plugins needed in order to use OpenSSL.


Cheers

AGL


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Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineeer
Carnegie Mellon University




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