Shibboleth Developers

[David Langenberg <>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Cantor, Scott E. 
<>
 wrote:
>> is this info still relevant:
>> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/NativeSPLinuxRH6
>
> Yes.
>
>> Would it be possible to work this around in the code?
>
> No.
>
>> Maintaining another version of curl is not the best way to work around 
>> this...
>
> Changing the functionality offered by a significant library in the OS isn't 
> the best way to maintain an OS either (not that that's your fault, but it 
> isn't mine either).
>
> If you want to spend your time on this, the best way is to produce a 
> maintainable patch that would allow the curl package to be built with a 
> different library name (libcurl-openssl.so or something like that). I would 
> have to produce configure patches to support that, but it would be doable.
>
> I looked into it, but it was extremely invasive to the curl build and it 
> was much easier to do what I did.

Has anybody thought about perhaps building the RHEL6 packages with
static links to libcurl/openssl thereby allowing the OS packages to
remain?

Dave

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