Sprinkling WITH_OPENSSL_BASE in ports, ratbox build failure.

[Dewayne Geraghty]

On 28/01/2015 6:42 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 2015/01/28 05:57, Dewayne Geraghty wrote:
>> ratbox generated an unusual error message today, via portmaster on a
>> 10.1Stable, amd64 system
>> However commenting out the recently inserted
>> WITH_OPENSSL_BASE=yes
>> from the Makefile enables the build to complete and uses the correct
>> crypto and ssl libraries.  Shouldn't it be an option base or port?  Or
>> is the openssl port going to go away?
> More like the other way around: ports will use the openssl version from
> ports exclusively, and the version in the base system will move into a
> private location.  (This is my understanding of current thinking, but I
> make no guarantee that it is what does eventually get implemented.)
>
> The ircd-ratbox port doesn't appear to be doing anything unusual with
> respect to openssl support that I can see from a quick inspection of the
> port Makefile.
>
> If you've just added 'WITH_OPENSSL_BASE' to your make.conf, then (a) you
> potentially need to recompile many ports which depend on openssl so you
> don't end up with mixed linkage against both ports and base, and (b)
> some ports require the ports version of openssl because they depend on
> functionality only in the newer version available from ports.
>
> Personally, I prefer 'WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes'  It's meant I have been
> able to turn off SSLv2 and SSLv3 everywhere pretty simply (no more
> POODLE...)
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
>
Matthew,
Thank-you for taking the time to review and advise.

It turned out that

WITH_OPENSSL_BASE

was inserted into the irc-ratbox/Makefile some time about but only
recently took effect due to the addition of USE= openssl (#1) which
triggered the application of openssl from base [Thanks to John Marshall
for explaining the sequence, offline].  I do have WITH_OPENSSL_PORT in
my old ports.conf so when I removed the

WITH_OPENSSL_BASE

from the Makefile everything went as expected.  Since our email exchange
the Makefile has been modified and the world is a happier place for it ;)

Kind regards, Dewayne.
PS I still use WITH/WITHOUT options in ports.conf as I have a filter
that does the correct ..._SET/.._UNSET work.  Done at a time during high
ports flux.

Reference: #1  I suspect that this had something to do with it  
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195796