On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Martin Hecht <hecht@xxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > This causes configure to fail on SLES 11 sp3 LTSS. SUSE backports > security fixes for openssl 0.9.8 until 2019. > I have found the corresponding git commit which changes configure.ac, > and would like to undo it. You're welcome to do so however if it breaks you get to keep both pieces. > Apart from the concern that upstream at > openssl stopped supporting 0.9.8, are there any other reasons behind > this change (new dependencies on 1.0.1 which are not checked elsewhere)? > Given that support was removed late in the development cycle and it was tested with older versions up until then I would guess 7.5p1 might still work. Beyond that, there's a bunch of compatibility shims in openbsd-compat/openssl-compat.{c,h} and a couple of ifdef OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER sprinkled in the code which I would expect to be removed in future. -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 11EAA6FA / A86E 3E07 5B19 5880 E860 37F4 9357 ECEF 11EA A6FA (new) Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev