Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] linux-yocto: use openssl-native.bbclass

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 11:44:51AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-10-04 at 13:11 +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> > It sets environment variables etc correctly for openssl-native use.
> > For most kernel side use cases are covered by plain openssl native
> > wrapper but some out of tree e.g. python scripts may be not.
> 
> When you say "out of tree", you mean scripts in the kernel we don't use
> by default, or scripts that aren't in the kernel at all but some users
> add?

Both. Same for u-boot which has internal signing scripts that require
python3-cryptography-native which doesn't work out of the box.

> I'd have thought the dependency on the class would be added where it
> was being used?

Yes, this could be done too, but I'd like to set a clear example in poky
by using this bbclass.

The root causes are not obvious when ../usr/bin/openssl works but
../usr/lib/libcrypto.so doesn't.

Cheers,

-Mikko