How to tell Autoconf "require symbol A or B" from LIB?

Question

I'm trying to configure Postgres 9.5.4 for OpenSSL 1.1.0. Configure is dying because it can't find SSL_library_init in OpenSSL 1.1.0. OpenSSL 1.1.0 provides OPENSSL_init_ssl instead of SSL_library_init. So Autoconf needs to check for either SSL_library_init or OPENSSL_init_ssl.

Postgres uses the following test:

AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_library_init, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL])])

How do I modify that [rule?] to look for either SSL_library_init or OPENSSL_init_ssl?

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Naively, I changed configure.in to the following, which did not work. The best I can tell, my changes were ignored (even after running autoreconf):

AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_library_init|OPENSSL_init_ssl, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL])])

---

Here is the Postgrs configure command:

$ ./configure --with-openssl --with-includes=/usr/local/ssl/include --with-libraries=/usr/local/ssl/lib

Here is the relevant entry from config.log:

configure:8732: gcc -o conftest -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute
-Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv
-Wno-unused-command-line-argument -I/usr/local/ssl/include
-L/usr/local/ssl/lib   -I/usr/local/ssl/include   -L/usr/local/ssl/lib
conftest.c -lssl  -lcrypto -lz -lreadline -lm  >&5
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_SSL_library_init", referenced from:
      _main in conftest-c0c2a1.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
invocation)
configure:8732: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "PostgreSQL"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "postgresql"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "9.5.4"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "PostgreSQL 9.5.4"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PG_MAJORVERSION "9.5"
| #define PG_VERSION "9.5.4"
| #define USE_INTEGER_DATETIMES 1
| #define DEF_PGPORT 5432
| #define DEF_PGPORT_STR "5432"
| #define BLCKSZ 8192
| #define RELSEG_SIZE 131072
| #define XLOG_BLCKSZ 8192
| #define XLOG_SEG_SIZE (16 * 1024 * 1024)
| #define ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY 1
| #define PG_KRB_SRVNAM "postgres"
| #define USE_OPENSSL 1
| #define HAVE_LIBM 1
| #define HAVE_LIBREADLINE 1
| #define HAVE_LIBZ 1
| #define HAVE_SPINLOCKS 1
| #define HAVE_ATOMICS 1
| #define HAVE_LIBCRYPTO 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
|    Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
|    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| char SSL_library_init ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| return SSL_library_init ();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:8741: result: no
configure:8751: error: library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL

Askja

Answer 1

Something like this should work out for you:

ACCEPT_SSL_LIB="no"
AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, OPENSSL_init_ssl, [ACCEPT_SSL_LIB="yes"])
AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_library_init, [ACCEPT_SSL_LIB="yes"])
AS_IF([test "x$ACCEPT_SSL_LIB" = xno], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL])])

You may need another variable to tell you what init function to call, to set up SSL, unless there's some macro magic in a header file that will actually fix it up to the right value.

Replicate

Thank you very much. Yes, there is some OpenSSL-specific macro magic for the source code. The sticking point (for me) is getting past the configuration problems. – Askja

Answer 2

To build upon @ldav1s' answer, here are the changes to configure.in required to get past configuration. Once configure.in is modified, autoreconf should be run.

$ git diff configure.in > configure.in.diff

$ cat configure.in.diff 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c878b4e..7ba7538 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1112,10 +1112,16 @@ if test "$with_openssl" = yes ; then
   dnl Order matters!
   if test "$PORTNAME" != "win32"; then
      AC_CHECK_LIB(crypto, CRYPTO_new_ex_data, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'crypto' is required for OpenSSL])])
-     AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl,    SSL_library_init, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL])])
+     FOUND_SSL_LIB="no"
+     AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, OPENSSL_init_ssl, [FOUND_SSL_LIB="yes"])
+     AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_library_init, [FOUND_SSL_LIB="yes"])
+     AS_IF([test "x$FOUND_SSL_LIB" = xno], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL])])
   else
      AC_SEARCH_LIBS(CRYPTO_new_ex_data, eay32 crypto, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'eay32' or 'crypto' is required for OpenSSL])])
-     AC_SEARCH_LIBS(SSL_library_init, ssleay32 ssl, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'ssleay32' or 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL])])
+     FOUND_SSL_LIB="no"
+     AC_SEARCH_LIBS(OPENSSL_init_ssl, ssleay32 ssl, [FOUND_SSL_LIB="yes"])
+     AC_SEARCH_LIBS(SSL_library_init, ssleay32 ssl, [FOUND_SSL_LIB="yes"])
+     AS_IF([test "x$FOUND_SSL_LIB" = xno], [AC_MSG_ERROR([library 'ssleay32' or 'ssl' is required for OpenSSL])])
   fi
   AC_CHECK_FUNCS([SSL_get_current_compression])
 fi

Askja