On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > The problem would be if two different groups go and version the > symbols in a different way (OPENSSL_0.9.8 vs OPENSSL_0_9_8). But as
I will repeat myself once: just hunt down and email the openssl maintainers for: SuSE, RH/Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, plus upstream, with the explanation of why we versioned the symbols and the patch (and YES, I can write the explanation if anyone needs it). They won't set a different symbol if you use something that Solaris will also accept (upstream) or that looks sane (other distros). Probably most will apply the patch. Information about Solaris is easy to find, and appears to be exactly the same as what is done in Linux, other than they have preferred namespaces: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als00/2000papers/papers/full_papers/browndavid/browndavid_html/ Other distros will soon notice (and there is no reason why you can't email them directly, either) when the biggest ones start versioning symbols, and the next edition of the LSB will pick it up if all major players deployed it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]