Shibboleth Developers

[Tom Poage <>]

On 05/20/2011 10:42 AM, Cantor, Scott E. wrote:
> On 5/20/11 1:24 PM, "Tom Poage" 
> <>
>  wrote:
>> One of thing I'd considered toying with for platforms needing libcurl
>> linked against OpenSSL is to rename the library itself to something like
> 
> That's how Debian works. The main problem is that it's hard; I looked at
> 
> The other problem is that you still have a conflict between
> libcurl-devel's of different flavors, generally. It's quite confusing in
> practice.
> 
>> Flip side, a curl library with a different name might be more generally
>> useful to other (TBD) code needing the same feature set as shibd.
> 
> I think the PRELOAD option actually is more viable in that respect,
> because you have to start playing games with configure scripts to use a
> different libname, and projects don't really want to do that.

Agreed. "RPM Hell" is how I've heard the above described. :-)

>> FWIW, as recently as RHEL 5 (not tested with RHEL 6) local RPM builds
>> were defaulting to /usr/local. Some of this may have had more to do with
>> my peculiar use of cpan2rpm etc. than OS configuration.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "local" builds.

curl -O .../foo-....src.rpm
rpm -i foo-...src.rpm
rpmbuild -bb /path/SPECS/foo.spec
rpm -i /path/RPMS/.../foo-....rpm

Tom.