On Nov 22, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Sagar Dixit wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to trace the calls in libssl while I run firefox. I > downloaded openssl-0.9.8l.tar.gz source and added my logging > information into source files (just for study purpose) and executed > following steps > > ./config -fPIC shared > make > make install > > This created /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so I added the path to > LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ran firefox. But firefox failed with > > sa...@sagar-laptop:~/Desktop/openssl-0.9.8l$ firefox > Couldn't load XPCOM.
Are you sure Firefox uses OpenSSL? I was under the impression that it uses the Netscape crypto library. S. > I used xpcshell to trace the problem and saw this: > > sa...@sagar-laptop:~/Desktop/openssl-0.9.8l$ xpcshell-1.9 > xpcshell-1.9: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl3.so: no version information > available (required by /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.15/libxul.so) > xpcshell-1.9: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl3.so: no version information > available (required by /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.15/libxul.so) > xpcshell-1.9: relocation error: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.15/libxul.so: > symbol SSL_ImplementedCiphers, version NSS_3.2 not defined in file > libssl3.so with link time reference > > I think Mozilla Firefox 3.5 needs libssl3.so (and renaming libssl.so > to libssl3.so did not work and gave same error) > > I later tried nm on original libssl.so (/usr/lib/libssl.so) and on > 'new' libssl.so (/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so) > and found that OPENSSL_0.9.8 symbol is missing in 'new' built libssl.so > > Am I missing anything in Installation steps ? How can I pass the > versioning information during installation steps ? > I read the INSTALL file but could not find any related information. > > Any help is highly appreciated. > > Thanking you, > Sagar > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > > -- san...@temme.net http://www.temme.net/sander/ PGP FP: 51B4 8727 466A 0BC3 69F4 B7B8 B2BE BC40 1529 24AF
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