Hi! TL;DR: nss has some of the same symbols as openssl, which leads to core dumps when both are linked in the same binary
Long version: Recently I tried packaging Sigil for pkgsrc. It links against nss via qtwebengine. It also links against openssl via qtbase libraries, and it has an embedded python interpreter that loads python's ssl loadable module, which links against openssl. Sigil's update checker uses a python script to download a file via https. This dumps core on my machine, with a backtrace that ends in nss, but the nss functions are called from openssl (which intends to call its own functions of the same name instead). Lots of details are in the Sigil bug report[1]. In the meantime I've found that the pkgsrc package for nss already renames some of the symbols for the same reason, but triggered by libcups or libgssapi.[2] I wonder why this does not affect more people. Is pkgsrc or NetBSD doing something weird/strange/wrong? I'm not quite sure what the best fix is. I can add more patches to the pkgsrc package to locally rename symbols. I understand that it's hard to ask nss to change their symbols just because openssl has the same names, but I think that's what I'm trying to do with this email :) What do you recommend? Cheers, Thomas [1] https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/issues/604 [2] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/blob/trunk/devel/nss/patches/patch-am https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/blob/trunk/devel/nss/patches/patch-an https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/blob/trunk/devel/nss/patches/patch-nss_lib_freebl_md5.c -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "dev-tech-crypto@mozilla.org" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dev-tech-crypto+unsubscr...@mozilla.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-tech-crypto/20210407121811.fuhja7gbgwg7qnst%40yt.nih.at.
