[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH 4/5] libressl: add a recipe to support openssh

[Andre McCurdy]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:03 AM, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/2018 11:38 AM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>>
>> I played around with completely replacing openssl with libressl a year
>> or so ago and it went fairly smoothly (at least as far as I tested).
>> That was with libressl 2.4.2 and my recipe built with autotools rather
>> than cmake though. Did you try to build with autotools? That still
>> appears to be the option mentioned first in the libressl README.
>
> That's not however the options I would take first, as the recipe maintainer
> :) Autotools is horrible in many ways; while cmake is not great, it's
> definitely less horrible.

Well, as you're the one writing the recipe you get to make the choice
:-) But if one "just works" and the other requires patches that might
sway the choice a little. I wasn't sure if you'd even looked at the
autotools build.

Either option is a vast improvement on the openssl build system
though. Libressl seems to have done a lot of valuable cleanup in that
respect.