[Buildroot] [PATCH] libcurl: drop polarssl support

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:22:08 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:

> The problem is that they aren't made to live together in a friendly way
> and some packages don't take path arguments for it.
> It would require quite some package patching since we'd need each
> polarssl to live outside the default include/library PATHs.
> We aren't dropping a feature itself, just a feature based on one of the
> possible candidates that enables it, with gnutls, nss and openssl being
> the other candidates for the job.
> The big culprit here AFAIK is just openvpn, it's the only mofo that
> won't do with polarssl 1.3. There are patches in the master branch
> upstream for it, but that's to become openvpn 2.4 or so.
> Maybe they're not hard to backport, i don't know, but it would require
> more testing than just "it builds".
> Or we can kill polarssl support in openvpn, not great either since the
> other alternative is openssl.

Ok. I guess we can wait for openvpn 2.4 to be released. If that takes
too long, I'd say we should kill polarssl support in openvpn, because
it's the one lagging behind. It seems more logical to me to kill that
one (the one lagging behind) instead of the one being up-to-date (i.e,
libcurl).

Thomas
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