On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 14:15:24 CEST Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> The libssh pkg-config is not complete, the libraries required to
> link with libssh are not returned. For example on Ubuntu 18.04:
> 
>   $ dpkg -l|fgrep libssh
>   ii libssh-4:arm64 0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1ubuntu0.2 arm64 tiny C SSH library (OpenSSL flavor)
>   ii libssh-dev 0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1ubuntu0.2 arm64 tiny C SSH library. Development files (OpenSSL flavor)
> 
>   $ pkg-config libssh --libs
>   -lssh
> 
> Since the ./configure script tries to link an object to figure if
> libssh is available, it fails:
> 
>   $ cat  config.log
>   [...]
>   cc -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 [...] -o config-temp/qemu-conf.exe config-temp/qemu-conf.c -m64 -static -g -lssh
>   /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libssh.a(dh.c.o): In function `ssh_crypto_init':
>   (.text+0x1a9): undefined reference to `BN_new'
>   (.text+0x1c2): undefined reference to `BN_set_word'
>   (.text+0x1c7): undefined reference to `BN_new'
>   (.text+0x1e7): undefined reference to `BN_bin2bn'
>   (.text+0x1ec): undefined reference to `BN_new'
>   (.text+0x20c): undefined reference to `BN_bin2bn'
>   (.text+0x218): undefined reference to `OPENSSL_init_crypto'
>   [...]
>   collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Sigh :/

> ---
> Should we check for libcrypto?
> 
> $ pkg-config --libs libssh openssl
> -lssh -lssl -lcrypto

Definitely not! The crypto library is an internal implementation of
libssh, so please do not assume libssh is built against openssl.

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Pino Toscano