The deal is that that is a problem for libtoolized packages, when they don't pick up cygssl*, instead they link statically to libssl.a.
No. That is not true. If you link with '-lcrypto -lssl' the linker picks automatically the .dll.a import libs at first.
It needs some hackery to persuade them to pick up the dynamic version there.
If there are packages where configure looks for libssl.a explicitly, then they want it statically? If not, then the tests or used macros are buggy. And in case of PHP the tests in the macros are buggy.
Usually, configure and libtool are doing a good job. Please don't change anything.
Gerrit -- =^..^=
