Re: Libpq linked statically linked to OpenSSL/LibreSSL

Hi all,

I tried to follow the advices from Andreas but without any luck.
I added the  --with-includes=, --with-libraries= arguments to the configure command (with path to my static LibreSSL
libraries)and I also modified the Makefile.global with: 
-Wl,-Bstatic -lssl -lcrypto -Wl,-Bdynamic

The resulting libpq.so is bigger (in size) than the previous one but it continues to try to dynamically load the SSL
functions.
# nm -D libpq.so

the output looks like:

000000000001f110 T appendBinaryPQExpBuffer
000000000001f000 T appendPQExpBuffer
000000000001f0d0 T appendPQExpBufferChar
000000000001f150 T appendPQExpBufferStr
                U ASN1_STRING_data
                U ASN1_STRING_length
                U BIO_clear_flags
                U BIO_int_ctrl
                U BIO_new
                U BIO_set_flags
                U BIO_s_socket
                U calloc
                U close
                U connect
000000000001ecd0 T createPQExpBuffer
                U CRYPTO_get_id_callback
                U CRYPTO_get_locking_callback
                U CRYPTO_num_locks
                U CRYPTO_set_id_callback
                U CRYPTO_set_locking_callback
                U __ctype_b_loc
                U __ctype_tolower_loc
                U __ctype_toupper_loc
                w __cxa_finalize
000000000001ed30 T destroyPQExpBuffer
                U ENGINE_by_id
                U ENGINE_finish
                U ENGINE_free
                U ENGINE_init
                U ENGINE_load_private_key
000000000001ed90 T enlargePQExpBuffer
                U ERR_clear_error
                U ERR_get_error
                U __errno_location
                U ERR_put_error
                U ERR_reason_error_string
                U EVP_DigestFinal_ex
                U EVP_DigestInit_ex


I really don't know why it is so difficult to have the SSL libraries statically linked to libpq.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Marco


> On 6 Dec 2022, at 19:01, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-12-06 11:05:49 +0100, Marco Bambini wrote:
>> I made some progresses, especially in understanding where the issue can be.
>>
>> I started with a fresh postgresql-15.1 source code installation:
>> # ./configure --with-openssl --without-readline
>>
>> I then modified the Makefile.global in the src directory by replacing the occurrences of -lssl and -lcrypto with:
>> /root/rothsoft/libressl-3.6.1/ssl/.libs/libssl.a /root/rothsoft/libressl-3.6.1/crypto/.libs/libcrypto.a
>> in the LIBS entry.
>
> I think this is completely the wrong path. You should add libressl's include
> and library directories to --with-includes=, --with-libraries=.
>
>
>> Please notice all the U entries in the crypto/ssl functions, so it looks like that they are NOT statically linked
insidethe libpq.so shared library, even if I replaced the LIBS in the Makefile. 
>
> If there's also a shared version of libressl, you possibly would need to
> specify that you'd want to link statically. Something like
> -Wl,-Bstatic -lssl -lcrypto -Wl,-Bdynamic
>
> But I suspect that you're better of linking dynamically, specifying
> --with-includes= --with-libraries= should provide a path towards that. It's
> possible that you should add -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/libressl/lib to the LDFLAGS,
> so that the dynamic version can be found at runtime.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund