[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1637: compilation errors with pyOpenSSL >= 0.13 on RHEL5 systems (and clones)

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#1637: compilation errors with pyOpenSSL >= 0.13 on RHEL5 systems (and clones)
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     Reporter:  davidsarah  |      Owner:  jcftang
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major       |  Milestone:  1.9.1
    Component:  packaging   |    Version:  1.9.0
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:  openssl packaging linux redhat
Launchpad Bug:  845445      |
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Comment (by zooko):

 jcftang: it appears to me that when you build a pyOpenSSL egg then it
 includes a copy of {{{libcrypto.so}}} in the resulting .egg, so that egg
 will work on a platform even if that version of {{{libcrypto.so}}} is not
 the standard one for that platform. Please try it! Let's see. :-)

 I'm not sure what you mean about the pyOpenSSL people "supporting" RHEL 5.
 Jean-Paul "exarkun" Calderone is the the most active contributor to
 pyOpenSSL, and he said something on
 [https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/845445 pyOpenSSL ticket 845445]
 that made it sound like he was willing to work on this, but lacked "a good
 environment set up to be able to easily test against specific versions of
 OpenSSL". Maybe we could offer to help him set up such an environment?

 Also helping them build automation that produces .eggs automatically on
 different platforms would certainly help:
 [https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/668996 pyOpenSSL ticket
 668996].

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