On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Salz, Rich <rs...@akamai.com> wrote:
>> We still don't know what use case is being represented by omitting the
>> RPATH in the OpenSSL build.
>
> Because only one program, apps/openssl, presumably needs rpath.  But that 
> doesn't solve the problem for *external applications* that need to find 
> OpenSSL in a different place, does it?
>

Without RPATH's (or some other mechanism, like making openssl a script
that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH), libssl.so will use the wrong libcrypto.so.
The openssl program will use the wrong libssl.so and libcrypto.so.

Jeff
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