OpenSSL ports/base magic [was: [HEADS UP]: OpenLDAP+nss_ldap+nss_modules separated patch and more (SoC)]

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2006.08.23 13:46:40 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> writes:
> > Michael Bushkov <bushman at rsu.ru> writes:(from Tue, 22 Aug 2006
> > > So, after all, I'd prefer to leave libldap (and nss_ldap, which can
> > > also conflict with PADL's nss_ldap) as is and let users use
> > > WITHOUT_LDAP and WITHOUT_NSS_LDAP when appropriate.
> > If someone doesn't like the base system libldap, but wants the
> > nss_ldap stuff, this way will not work out. While building the base
> > system, no 3rd party libs are known to the build infrastructure.
> 
> Wrong.  It is already possible in today's tree to build the base
> system's Kerberos with OpenLDAP support using the OpenLDAP port, and
> there are similar provisions for using OpenSSL from ports.

I know there are some magic in ports/ to use the ports version of
OpenSSL, but I don't think there is anything done to support this in
the base system, or have I missed that?

(I'm interested as OpenSSL base system janitor to try to make sure I
don't break something in the future by accident :-) ).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen