Re: OpenSSL 1.1 breaks configure and more

On 08/26/2016 07:04 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 08/26/2016 07:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut  writes:
>>> On 8/26/16 5:31 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>> I think now would be a good time to drop support for OpenSSL versions
>>>> older than 0.9.8. OpenSSL don't even support 0.9.8 anymore, although
>>>> there are probably distributions out there that still provide patches
>>>> for it. But OpenSSL 0.9.7 and older are really not interesting for
>>>> PostgreSQL 10 anymore, I think.
>>
>>> CentOS 5 currently ships 0.9.8e.  That's usually the oldest OS we want
>>> to support eagerly.
>>
>> Also, I get this on fully-up-to-date OS X (El Capitan):
>>
>> $ openssl version
>> OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016
>
> Ok, sold, let's remove support for OpenSSL < 0.9.8.

I have attached a patch which removes the < 0.9.8 compatibility code. 
Should we also add a version check to configure? We do not have any such 
check currently.

Andreas