[OE-core] cURL recipe: SSL backend

Alexander Kanavin alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
Mon May 7 12:59:40 UTC 2018


On 05/07/2018 03:51 PM, Viacheslav Salnikov wrote:
> cULR is built with GNUTLS for Target but OpenSSL is used for native and 
> SDK.
> 
> So my question is: why GNUTLS is used only for target? Is it necessary 
> for some good reason? Documentation for cURL has no explicit answer for 
> that.
> 
> Could somebody help me to find the answer?

I think enabling gnutls on the native side would add a ton of 
dependencies to build, and so openssl (which is more self-contained) is 
selected there.

Alex




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