Re: [Nmh-workers] Starting the final call for features for 1.7

[Tom Lane]

Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
> Hm.  It seems that the preferred function is now OPENSSL_init_ssl(), but
> there is a macro which still makes the old SSL_library_init() function
> work.  I guess that test doesn't include that header file; that might be
> a bit sneaky to fix, but I think we can do it.

The core issue is that autoconf probe macros like AC_CHECK_LIB() will only
succeed against names that are actual global linker symbols, ie functions,
not C macros.  SSL_library_init() is not in that category as of 1.1.0.

You want to pick one that is an actual function in both older and newer
OpenSSL releases.  Postgres went with SSL_new(); there are doubtless
others that would work.

                        regards, tom lane