Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libjwt: require openssl

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de> writes:

 > On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 10:17:47PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >> While it can work with the combination gnutls + libopenssl, would there
 >> be any advantage over just using openssl for everything?

 > I've been wondering about this as well. It seems that applications using
 > libjwt can select between backends using an API call[1]. There don't
 > seem to be any feature differences between gnutls and openssl in my
 > cursory reading of the code. Furthermore, I could find no public use of
 > the backend switching API beyond libjwt's own test cases.

 > There seem to have been differences in feature completeness in the past
 > though[2][3], so it's possible that this is vestigial and/or the author
 > doesn't want to break existing applications more than necessary.

 > We could remove it from Buildroot entirely (though libjwt will still
 > automatically link to it when it detects gnutls in its sysroot via
 > pkg-config[4]), but it also doesn't hurt much as it doesn't enable the
 > gnutls dependency itself, so the overhead just is linking another object
 > file into the library

OK. Committed after dropping the gnutls support, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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