Subject: Re: OpenSSL AES-CTR not working?

Re: OpenSSL AES-CTR not working?

From: Paul Howarth <paul_at_city-fan.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:13:43 +0000

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:09:17 +0000
Paul Howarth <paul_at_city-fan.org> wrote:

> I've been trying to build libssh2 (1.4.0) against openssl 1.0.1 in
> Fedora Rawhide and it fails to build because global.c calls
> _libssh2_init_aes_ctr but that function isn't defined in openssl.c if
> HAVE_EVP_AES_128_CTR is defined, resulting in:
>
> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wl,-z,relro -o
> direct_tcpip direct_tcpip.o ../src/libssh2.la libtool: link: gcc -O2
> -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wl,-z -Wl,relro
> -o .libs/direct_tcpip direct_tcpip.o ../src/.libs/libssh2.so
> -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64 ../src/.libs/libssh2.so: undefined
> reference to `_libssh2_init_aes_ctr' collect2: error: ld returned 1
> exit status
>
> So I tried patching global.c not to call _libssh2_init_aes_ctr if
> HAVE_EVP_AES_128_CTR is defined, which fixed the compile problem but
> broke the test suite:
>
(snip)

I'm able to work around this for now by disabling the AES-CTR detection
in configure, by doing:

export ac_cv_func_EVP_aes_128_ctr=no

before running the configure script, so it doesn't try to use the
openssl functions.

Paul.
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