On 29/05/2017 16:39, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
... The only reason why you would ever want to use RPATH with OpenSSL is because you need to install a particular old version of libssl (or libcrypto) that has the same SONAME as the system-default, but where you don't want to use that system-default one -- but why would you want to do that? Security updates are a good thing, usually.
There is another, converse case: If the system comes with a (patched) old version of the OpenSSL libraries (for example, Debian 7 comes with a patched OpenSSL 1.0.1 that ensures 100% compatibility with programs compiled against version 1.0.1t headers), then you may also need a special SO name or RPATH to link locally compiled software against the latest 1.0.x release, rather than 1.0.1 .
RPATH support is nice for corner cases, but it should not be the default, ever.
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