Various patches

[John Tapsell]

2008/9/23 Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 10:57 +0100, John Tapsell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   The first patch applies to xorg/xserver  and replaces the
>> requirement of openssl with an internal SHA1 implementation.  The SHA1
>> code is the code that openbsd uses and is public domain.
>
> Using an internal SHA1 implementation isn't a good idea as any bugs in
> that will likely go unfixed for years.

While this is possible, this is an extremely small amount of code and
it's code that is used pretty much everywhere, including ffmpeg,
wpa_supplicant, etc.


> Is there some specific system
> which doesn't have any library providing a SHA1 implementation?

Pretty much every single embed system?  Openssl doesn't crosscompile.

If you revert this patch, you make it not possible to cross-compile X, afaics.

John


Whil

>
> I've reverted this patch; you're welcome to create a patch which uses an
> external SHA1 library of your own making, but I don't want X.org to be
> in the position of maintaining this code.
>
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