Loading docs/DISTRO-DILEMMA +13 −3 Original line number Original line Diff line number Diff line Date: September 1, 2005 Date: September 2, 2005 Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> URL: http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html URL: http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html Loading Loading @@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ Project cURL Angle of this Problem affects users - GPL application authors only - of our lib as it comes affects users - GPL application authors only - of our lib as it comes included and delivered on some distros. included and delivered on some distros. libcurl has different ABI when built with different SSL/TLS libraries due to two reasons: 1. No one has worked on fixing this. The mutex/lock callbacks should be set with a generic libcurl function that should use the proper underlying functions. 2. The CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION option is not possible to "emulate" on GnuTLS but simply requires OpenSSL. Distro Angle of this Problem Distro Angle of this Problem A distro can provide separate libcurls built with different SSL/TLS libraries A distro can provide separate libcurls built with different SSL/TLS libraries Loading Loading
docs/DISTRO-DILEMMA +13 −3 Original line number Original line Diff line number Diff line Date: September 1, 2005 Date: September 2, 2005 Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> URL: http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html URL: http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html Loading Loading @@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ Project cURL Angle of this Problem affects users - GPL application authors only - of our lib as it comes affects users - GPL application authors only - of our lib as it comes included and delivered on some distros. included and delivered on some distros. libcurl has different ABI when built with different SSL/TLS libraries due to two reasons: 1. No one has worked on fixing this. The mutex/lock callbacks should be set with a generic libcurl function that should use the proper underlying functions. 2. The CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION option is not possible to "emulate" on GnuTLS but simply requires OpenSSL. Distro Angle of this Problem Distro Angle of this Problem A distro can provide separate libcurls built with different SSL/TLS libraries A distro can provide separate libcurls built with different SSL/TLS libraries Loading
