On 8/8/18, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > On 2018-08-08 00:07, Fetchinson . via Python-list wrote: >> The highest version of openssl available on my system is 1.0.0 which >> is not good enough for pip these days (or github for that matter). So >> I've installed 1.1.0 to a custom location /home/fetch/opt. But if I do >> >> import ssl >> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION >> >> it still shows me that it is using the system default 1.0.0. How do I >> tell python to use /home/fetch/opt for the ssl module? Note that I >> have /home/fetch/opt as the first entry in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Also, I >> know for a fact that I don't need to recompile python for this so >> please don't suggest "just recompile python with the new openssl >> library" as the solution :) > > Hi, > > first of all, you need to use the library directory for LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > It's the directory that contains libssl*.so, probably > /home/fetch/opt/lib or /home/fetch/opt/lib64.
Yes, you are right, thanks. But it still doesn't work, most probably because of the reason you mention below. > You may also have to recompile Python yourself. OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not > ABI-compatible with OpenSSL 1.0.0. In case you want to use OpenSSL > 1.1.0, you must update to a more recent version of Python, too. OpenSSL > 1.1.0 support was added in 2.7.13. Ach, you are right again! I thought openssl was fully backward compatible, if not, then indeed I need to recompile, which I'll do now. Thanks a lot, Daniel > Christian > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
