On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Peter Stuge <peter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Damien Miller wrote: >> I'm considering adding some build sugar to simplify the process of >> building (and possibly fetching) LibreSSL as port of the OpenSSH >> build process. > > Please don't add any fetching, even opt-in, at the very least. It's > often a mistake, and a decision that is difficult to revert once it > becomes taken for granted. > > > Thanks > > //Peter *If* it became needful: Subversion did a pretty good job with this. They provide a "pre-build" script that checks if recent enough versions of libraries are installed, and fetches them if not found. It was a useful tool for backporting the software to older operating systems without contemporary libraries, but it also meant statically compiling those components. It could be a *lot* of work picking and choosing. That sort of stunt would seem more appropriate to the "portable" releases of OpenSSH, not the primary release. And yes, pulling in libraries for internal compilation is error prone, especially without a *very* well defined build environment. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
