openssl cmake module

[matthias sweertvaegher]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:56 PM, matthias sweertvaegher
<matthias.sweertvaegher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa
> <kubito at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> writes:
>>
>>> I had a look, now I remember.
>>> There is now quite a lot of stuff in it which I don't understand, like
>>> those "eay" libraries and and the FindLibraryWithDebug file which will
>>> probably break something on Windows if it is removed.
>>>
>>> The FindOpenSSL.cmake from CMake 2.6.4, which we depend on, doesn't look for
>>> the crypto library, so simply removing FindOpenSSL.cmake from kdelibs would
>>> not help your problem with libcrypto.
>>>
>>> Starting with cmake 2.8.0 FindOpenSSL.cmake checks for libcrypto.
>>> It has also some handling for debug and release builds on Windows, but I can't
>>> really comment on this, our Windows developers have to check that.
>>>
>>> So, we cannot simply remove the FindOpenSSL.cmake we have in kdelibs.
>>> Either the one we have has to be updated to e.g. the one from CMake 2.8.4 or
>>> 2.8.0, or a higher version of cmake needs to be required by KDE.
>>> But I'd like to wait a bit with requiring a higher cmake version.
>>> I'd like to see what comes out of the platform 11 meeting, maybe we'll need a
>>> higher cmake version afterwards, and I wouldn't want to increase the required
>>> version twice.
>>>
>>> So, can you pelase check that it works for you if you replace the
>>> FindOpenSSL.cmake in kdelibs with the one from CMake 2.8.4 ?
>>
>> Matthias, your turn to say you're still there :)
>
> yes, I realize.. :) thanks for looking into the issue, Alex; and
> thanks for reminding me Raphael ;)
>
> I have briefly taken a look but I run into trouble when running cmake
> (after upgrading my cmake from 2.8.1 to 2.8.4), so I need more time to
> investigate. I report back to you next week with more info. I am still
> on kde 4.4.4 here, so I might have to upgrade kde as well, i guess.
>
> cheers
> matthias

I have tested with the 2.8.4 version of FindOpenSSL.cmake and it
works, but did you want me to downgrade to cmake 2.6.4 somehow? That
is not entirely clear to me.

greets
matthias