sockets and freebsd (works w/ 2.1.3 but not 2.2.1)

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Tracy Ruggles wrote:

> Just downloaded and installed Python 2.2.1 and tried to run configure and
> then make, but they both stumbled on building the socket extension:

{...}

> I ran the above gcc and cc commands straight from the command line and
> moved the _socket.so file to python's lib directory just to see what would
> happen:
>
>    axionf% python
>    Python 2.2.1 (#5, Aug 21 2002, 03:45:02)
>    [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
>    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>    >>> import socket
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>      File "/usr/home/axiomf/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ?
>        from _socket import *
>    ImportError: /usr/lib/libssl.so.2: Undefined symbol "OpenSSLDie"
>    >>>
>
> Does anybody have a clue what's going on here?

I can't replicate this on a stock 4.4-RELEASE system.

The failure is that Python (as built) expects the SSL library
(libssl.so.2) to have a symbol "OpenSSLDie", but your copy of that
library doesn't have that symbol.

Have you attempted to update the SSL library by any chance?

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