Quoting Toby Inkster via RT (2013-05-18 15:19:40)
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> Alien::OpenSSL's focus is installing the linkable C library in a place
> where (XS) Perl modules can link to it.
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> Web-ID uses the OpenSSL command-line tool, but Alien::OpenSSL doesn't
> have a documented method the get the path for this.
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> I'm installing Alien::OpenSSL now (after setting the ALIEN_FORCE
> environment variable to true) to see if Alien::OpenSSL installs the
> command-line tool in any kind of predictable location.
My point of suggesting Alien::OpenSSL was to abstract away from
executing openssl binary directly.
Ideal would be IMO for an OpenSSL module to exist which would offer a
perl interface for openssl functionality, and either use Alien::OpenSSL
or or some alternative means of reaching the openssl binary (or,
possibly more reliable, XS to libssl library). Such alternative could
for Debian be to rely on the Debian packaging system and use a path
hardcoded at Perl module build time.
...but since no such ideal module exist I suggested the second-best of
relying on Alien::OpenSSL - but did not imagine you would then subvert
the suggestion into being a way of then depending on a Perl-provided
openssl while still bypassing it and executing openssl directly :-/
- Jonas
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