LibreSSL infects ports, causes problems

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Apr 9 21:17:12 UTC 2015


On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On 04/09/15 17:14, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> For now candidates are:
>> libarchive
>> ncurses
>> readline (which will have then to be linked to ports ncurses and not base
>> version through the magic of fake libtermcap)
>> openssl
>> libedit(?)
>>
>
> One I noticed recently was in ftp/curl -- if you're using the ports
> version of OpenSSL you also have to use one of the ports versions of
> GSSAPI -- GSSAPI_HEIMDAL or GSSAPI_MIT, or else GSSAPI_NONE.
> Otherwise you can end up with two different SSL shlibs linked into the
> same binary.

That broke VirtualBox with some very weird and inconsistent symptoms:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2015-March/012402.html


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