It appears this had already been done in the current sources.
> It appears, the following patch is needed to ensure the 7.0.2 can be
> built with SSL support (with OpenSSL). It fixes the fe-connect.c to
> report errors in "the new way". A few Makefiles also need to be modified
> to ensure the SSL libraries are listed as dependencies for the PG libs.
>
>
> --- interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c Sun May 21 17:19:53 2000
> +++ interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c Fri Sep 15 13:53:52 2000
> @@ -801 +801 @@
> - sprintf(conn->errorMessage,
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> @@ -809 +809 @@
> - sprintf(conn->errorMessage, "PQconnectDB() -- couldn't read postmaster response: errno=%d\n%s\n",
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage, "PQconnectDB() -- couldn't read postmaster response:
errno=%d\n%s\n",
> @@ -822 +822 @@
> - sprintf(conn->errorMessage,
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> @@ -832 +832 @@
> - sprintf(conn->errorMessage,
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> @@ -850 +850 @@
> - strcpy(conn->errorMessage,
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> --- interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c Sun May 21 17:19:53 2000
> +++ interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c Fri Sep 15 13:53:52 2000
> @@ -801 +801 @@
> - sprintf(conn->errorMessage,
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> @@ -809 +809 @@
> - sprintf(conn->errorMessage, "PQconnectDB() -- couldn't read postmaster response: errno=%d\n%s\n",
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage, "PQconnectDB() -- couldn't read postmaster response:
errno=%d\n%s\n",
> @@ -822 +822 @@
> - sprintf(conn->errorMessage,
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> @@ -832 +832 @@
> - sprintf(conn->errorMessage,
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> @@ -850 +850 @@
> - strcpy(conn->errorMessage,
> + printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
>
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