[Clfs-support] multilib openssl question

[Ken Moffat]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:44:05PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I haven't booted my clfs install as unfortunately I did it on an a 
> partition managed by LVM - I have to wait to get a new HD to create a 
> non LVM partition (I do want to figure out how to do clfs with full LVM 
> support - but I think keeping things simple initially is better) but I 
> am using the CLFS partition via chroot to script the building of some of 
> the utilities I know I'll need so that once I redo clfs (which I 
> scripted and verified the scripts work) I can fairly quickly get the 
> utilities I need working.
> 
> One of them is openssl - but reading the instructions at
> http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/OpenSSL
> 
> I have a question.
> 
> Since openssl does install a binary into /usr/bin - should the 32-bit 
> and 64-bit binaries be renamed and the multiarch wrapper used?
> 
> Looking at my CentOS 5.2 system, it seems that both packages (32 and 64) 
> have ownership of /usr/bin/openssl - but ldd on the binary reveals it is 
> the 64-bit binary, I'm guessing with multilib packages in RHEL/CentOS 
> that both own the same file in /usr/bin that the 64-bit version is the 
> only one actually available, but I'm not positive how they handle it.
> 
> Anyway, should I rename the 32-bit binary before installing 64-bit 
> version and use the wrapper, or is it OK for the 64-bit to overwrite the 
> 32-bit version?

 As with so many packages, on multilib this is built twice to get
the libraries in both sizes.  'openssl' is a test or diagnostic
program.  It works fine without the wrapper.

 The reasons why we use the wrapper are:
o for -config programs, also imake, xmkmf, ccmakedep which are used
  similarly.
o for the gtk and related programs such as pango-querymodules,
  gdk-pixbuf*, gtk-query-immodules-2.0.
o for perl and Python, so that the modules and libraries go into the
  proper places.

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