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Re: Idle hands... cleanup needs to be linked against libssl?

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de)
Date: Fri May 02 2008 - 03:45:18 CDT

* Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de>:
> David and I were wondering why the cleanup deamon is being linked
> against libssl.
>
> I had a naive look:
>
> postamt:/usr/src/postfix-2.6-20080411/src/cleanup# fgrep -i ssl *
> Binary file cleanup matches
> Makefile:SYSLIBS = -lpcre -lssl -lcrypto -lcdb -ldb -lnsl -lresolv
> Makefile:EXPORT = AUXLIBS='-lpcre -lssl -lcrypto -lcdb' CCARGS='-DHAS_CDB -DUSE_TLS -DHAS_PCRE -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DDEF_SERVER_SASL_TYPE=\"dovecot\" -DSNAPSHOT' OPT='-O' DEBUG='-g'
>
> So, I don't think linking in libssl would be necessary. But what do I
> know, so I think I'd rather ask.

I think this may be due to:
LIBS = ../../lib/libmaster.a ../../lib/libmilter.a ../../lib/libglobal.a \

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