Re: libelf now depends on openssl

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* Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:24:03AM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:52 am, Kevin Kofler via devel
>> <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >Do the boringssl symbols not have hidden visibility in libwebrtc?
>> >If they
>> >do, why are they getting interposed anyway? If they don't, why
>> >not? I assume
>> >the library is private to libwebrtc and its symbols should not be
>> >exported.
>> 
>> libwebrtc is a static lib, and so is boringssl. So all symbols,
>> except unused symbols, will be directly included in libwebkit2gtk.
>> In release builds, they would then be hidden by a linker script, but
>> in developer builds everything is exported because API tests depend
>> on internal symbols.
>
> Would it be possible to get rid of boringssl? Having yet another
> crypto library is ... bad.

Especially since it's not expected to be used outside of Google:

| BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.
| 
| Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for
| general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties
| depend upon it.

<https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/>

Thanks,
Florian
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