Nginx + LibreSSL - a first test

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Tue Jul 15 12:38:04 UTC 2014


Hello!

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 02:17:02AM -0700, Piotr Sikora wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> > # Summary
> >
> > It works.
> 
> ...only with versions older than nginx-1.7.0, you need a small patch
> (attached) in order to compile nginx-mainline against LibreSSL,
> because LibreSSL developers decided that LibreSSL is OpenSSL-2.0.0...
> I didn't send this patch to nginx-devel@ yet, because I'm still trying
> to convince them that LibreSSL should present itself as OpenSSL-1.0.1,
> in which case no changes to nginx would be necessary.

BTW, this is what was done in FreeBSD port of LibreSSL:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/security/libressl/files/patch-include-openssl-opensslv.h?view=log

It looks like a proper way to go.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/



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