Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 7/9] package/openssl: move libopenssl/libressl/.br2-external.in.openssl source statements outside of the choice

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello,

On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 08:50:25AM +0200, Titouan Christophe wrote:

> On 31/05/26 18:22, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 05:35:51PM +0200, Titouan Christophe wrote:
> > > +config BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL_EXTERNAL
> > > +        bool "from an external tree"
> > > +        depends on "$(BR2_EXTERNAL)" != ""
> > Hu? What is this thing?
> Not exactly sure for this particular entry (maybe you still remember that
> part @Peter Seiderer ?). Indeed, if I revert that particular change
> everything still works as expected. However, reverting either the libressl
> or libopenssl trigger the issue.
> 
> What I can tell for sure is that the libressl & libopenssl changes are
> required because a choice can no longer contain ifs, and the included file
> have some; hence the trickery to move them out of the choice.
> 
> I don't know about a publicly available br2-external that provides openssl,
> but if you have some I'd be glad to look further into that.

I don't have one, but it should be trivial to create a fake/dummy one,
to make sure this continues to work. Or maybe we have a runtime test
for this? (And if not we should have one!)

Thomas
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