openssl 1.1.1 utils mkerr.pl

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 09:52:26AM -0800, Enji Cooper wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 15, 2019, at 5:55 PM, David Cornejo <dave at dogwood.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am working on some code that wants to use mkerr.pl from the openssl
> > distribution - but this appears to have been left out of the import to
> > base.
> > 
> > Is there an alternative method to create the include files produced
> > from this script in FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> I would go a different route from what was mentioned by others — I would
> actually either grab mkerr.pl from upstream from the release package
> (upstream on GitHub is https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases )
> (sidenote: I don’t know why, but our vendor-crypto tree lacks this script
> as well; jkim@ CCed). Why go this route? You can easily grab the file

The script is used by upstream when preparing a release; we only use the
finished release objects from upstream and do not expect to be doing this
sort of "pre-release" step in our own operations.

-Ben