Re: openssl 1.1.1 utils mkerr.pl

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 7:54 AM Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk_at_mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 09:52:26AM -0800, Enji Cooper wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 15, 2019, at 5:55 PM, David Cornejo <dave_at_dogwood.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am working on some code that wants to use mkerr.pl from the openssl
> > > distribution - but this appears to have been left out of the import to
> > > base.
> > >
> > > Is there an alternative method to create the include files produced
> > > from this script in FreeBSD?
> >
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > I would go a different route from what was mentioned by others — I would
> > actually either grab mkerr.pl from upstream from the release package
> > (upstream on GitHub is https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases )
> > (sidenote: I don’t know why, but our vendor-crypto tree lacks this script
> > as well; jkim_at_ CCed). Why go this route? You can easily grab the file
>
> The script is used by upstream when preparing a release; we only use the
> finished release objects from upstream and do not expect to be doing this
> sort of "pre-release" step in our own operations.
>
> -Ben

thanks for the responses!

Let's say that this might become a port, so I'd create the output
files from mkerr.pl by pulling that script from upstream and then
include them in the files directory for installation?

thanks,
dave c

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