Oct. 20, 2021
7:43 a.m.
On 19/10/2021 16:45, Christian Heimes wrote:
We use the standard AX_CHECK_OPENSSL() m4 macro from autoconf-archive to detect OpenSSL. The macro uses pkg-config to detect OpenSSL. It doesn't check for specific version, though. We don't want to prevent people with outdated OpenSSL or LibreSSL from building Python without ssl support.
Christian I would not suggest that, but if the test at the end of the configure had said it can compile against openssl, but that a wrong or insufficient information would prevent building _ssl then a lot of cycles could be saved.
I suppose that might be impossible as the test might need to actually try and build _ssl.so. -- Robin Becker