Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 13:24:22 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Subject: Re: Libpq linked statically linked to OpenSSL/LibreSSL
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On Tue, Dec  6, 2022 at 10:01:00AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I then modified the Makefile.global in the src directory by replacing the occurrences of -lssl and -lcrypto with:
> > /root/rothsoft/libressl-3.6.1/ssl/.libs/libssl.a /root/rothsoft/libressl-3.6.1/crypto/.libs/libcrypto.a
> > in the LIBS entry.
> 
> I think this is completely the wrong path. You should add libressl's include
> and library directories to --with-includes=, --with-libraries=.

The big point is that a compile-compatible library is not necessarily a
link-compatible library, and that LibreSSL is probably only
compile-compatible with OpenSSL, hence the need to use the LibreSSL
includes.

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