[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf/tls_openssl: Support building with LibreSSL

[Marek Behun]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 22:35:12 +1100
Matt Oliver <protogonoi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well perhaps making a tls_libressl implementation would be the better
> way to go as the APIs are only going to diverge further. So perhaps
> in order to support LibreSSL there should be a separate
> implementation using LibreSSLs independent libtls instead of the
> older openssl support interface. libtls is the recommended and
> primarily supported interface when using LibreSSL so that should be
> used going forward instead of further complication the opensll code.

Yes, that would be the optimal solution, I think. But still, even if
not considering LibreSSL, the currently proposed patch is probably
a better way to check for BIO_meth_* calls in OpenSSL. That it also
works with LibreSSL can be considered as a bonus. Maybe the commit
message should be changed.