4 The OpenSSL Project documents their supported releases at
5 <https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html>. The Exim
6 Maintainers are unwilling to try to support Exim built with a
7 version of a critical security library which is unmaintained.
9 Thus as versions of OpenSSL become unsupported by OpenSSL, they become
10 unsupported by Exim. Exim might build with older releases of OpenSSL,
11 but that's risky behaviour.
13 If your operating system vendor continues to ship an older version of
14 OpenSSL and is diligently backporting security fixes, and they support
15 Exim, then they will be backporting fixes to their packages of Exim too.
16 If you wish to stick purely to packages of OpenSSL, then stick to
19 If someone maintains "backports", that is worth exploring too.
21 Note that a number of OSes use Exim with GnuTLS, not OpenSSL.
23 Otherwise, assuming that your operating system has old OpenSSL, and you
24 wish to use current Exim with OpenSSL, then you need to build and
25 install your own, without interfering with the system libraries.
26 Fortunately, this is easy.
28 So this only applies if you build Exim yourself.
34 Extract the current source of OpenSSL. Change into that directory.
36 This assumes that `/opt/openssl` is not in use. If it is, pick
37 something else. `/opt/exim/openssl` perhaps.
39 ./config --prefix=/opt/openssl --openssldir=/etc/ssl enable-ssl-trace
43 You now have an installed OpenSSL under /opt/openssl which will not be
44 used by any system programs.
46 When you copy `src/EDITME` to `Local/Makefile` to make your build edits,
47 choose the pkg-config approach in that file, but also tell Exim to add
48 the relevant directory into the rpath stamped into the binary:
51 USE_OPENSSL_PC=openssl
52 EXTRALIBS_EXIM=-ldl -Wl,-rpath,/opt/openssl/lib
54 The -ldl is needed by OpenSSL 1.1+ on Linux and is not needed on most
57 Then tell pkg-config how to find the configuration files for your new
58 OpenSSL install, and build Exim:
60 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig
70 exim -d-all+expand --version
72 and look for the `Library version: OpenSSL:` lines.
74 To look at the libraries _probably_ found by the linker, use:
76 ldd $(which exim) # most platforms
77 otool -L $(which exim) # MacOS
79 although that does not correctly handle restrictions imposed upon
80 executables which are setuid.
82 If the `chrpath` package is installed, then:
84 chrpath -l $(which exim)
86 will show the DT_RPATH stamped into the binary.
92 You can not use $ORIGIN for portably packing OpenSSL in with Exim with
93 normal Exim builds, because Exim is installed setuid which causes the
94 runtime linker to ignore $ORIGIN in DT_RPATH.
96 _If_ following the steps for a non-setuid Exim, _then_ you can use:
98 EXTRALIBS_EXIM=-ldl '-Wl,-rpath,$$ORIGIN/../lib'
100 The doubled `$$` is needed for the make(1) layer and the quotes needed
101 for the shell invoked by make(1) for calling the linker.
103 Note that this is sufficiently far outside normal that the build-system
104 doesn't support it by default; you'll want to drop a symlink to the lib
105 directory into the Exim release top-level directory, so that lib exists
106 as a sibling to the build-$platform directory.