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authorZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2014-11-01 22:11:08 (GMT)
committerZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2014-11-01 22:11:08 (GMT)
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Issue #17717: Pull NASM from svn.python.org for OpenSSL build.
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to be somewhere on your PATH. More recent versions of OpenSSL may
need a later version of NASM. If OpenSSL's self tests don't pass,
you should first try to update NASM and do a full rebuild of
- OpenSSL.
+ OpenSSL. If you use the Tools\buildbot\external(-amd64).bat method
+ for getting sources, it also downloads a version of NASM which the
+ ssl build script will add to PATH.
If you like to use the official sources instead of the files from
python.org's subversion repository, Perl is required to build the