[issue38794] Setup: support linking openssl staticly

Change by Lukas Vacek : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +16663 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17153 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38794] Setup: support linking openssl staticly

New submission from Lukas Vacek : Since 3.7 python depends on OpenSSL>=1.0.2 - this makes it hard to compile Python with SSL on older (yet still vendor supported) linux distributions. It's easy to compile CPython even on old distributions like RHEL5, RHEL6, Ubuntu14.04 etc. except for ssl mod