Thanks for a fast and clear reply!

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Kurt Roeckx via RT <r...@openssl.org> wrote:

> > Then a program linking to this library can read either of these global
> > variables at runtime and fail to start or emit a warning if the version
> > isn't up-to-date.
>
> Please don't do that.  You only create problems if you check the
> version.  I've actually had to remove checks like that from
> existing programs because it only causes problems.
>

We'd like to make sure that the libraries we're linking to are up-to-date.
 There are third parties who build our codebase who might not be as careful
as we might like.

Is there some other way to accomplish this?

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