Re: [Opensc-devel] Adding libp11 (or its equivalent) to OpenSSL

[Alon Bar-L. <alo...@gm...>]

On 26 February 2016 at 23:22, Michael Jackson <mik...@gm...> wrote:
>
> You can see reports of it all over the googlespace:
>
> https://www.google.com/#q=openssl+engine+missing+libgost.so
>
> Engine will simply refuse to load any engine if libgost.so is not
> present on the system. Remove your libgost.so and give it a try ;-)
> Or, just spin up a RHEL 7 or variant VM and give it a try. Haven't
> tried it with Fedora.
>
> On the other note, OpenSSL configure/build system also ignores LDFLAGS
> entirely which makes it very difficult to relocate entirely
> independent of the system OpenSSL.

I believe you are confusing between binary and source based distributions.
Also, although openssl build system is completely proprietary one, you
can customize it for your need, it just takes a lot of time to learn
it.
These two issues are irrelevant to this discussion.