I am TENTATIVELY checking in Martin von Loewis's patch for the SSL
problem reported by Neil Schemenauer on python-dev on 4/12/01, wth
subject "Problem with SSL and socketmodule on Debian Potato?".
It's tentative because Moshe objected, but Martin rebutted, and Moshe
seems unavailable for comments.
(Note that with OpenSSL 0.9.6a, I get a lot of compilation warnings
for socketmodule.c -- I'm assuming I can safely ignore these until 2.1
is released.)
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index c92dc95..e5dc7cb 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@
#include "openssl/ssl.h"
#include "openssl/err.h"
#include "openssl/rand.h"
+
+#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x0090510fL
+/* RAND_status was added in OpenSSL 0.9.5. If it is not available,
+ we assume that seeding the RNG is necessary every time. */
+#define RAND_status() 0
+#endif
+
#endif /* USE_SSL */
#if defined(MS_WINDOWS) || defined(__BEOS__)