On Thursday 03 January 2013, Joe Orton wrote:
> > Maybe the wording of pkg-config's "--static" option is somewhat
> > misleading. It doesn't force linking against the static libs
> > (i.e. lib{ssl,crypto}.a), but outputs the libraries from
> > openssl.pc's Libs.private line instead.
>
> Yup. Having httpd (mod_ssl/ab) link against whatever is listed in
> Libs.private is the wrong default, it should be a special case for
> the handful of people who build custom OpenSSL libraries.
Yes. Linking mod_ssl/ab with libz.so introduces spurious dependencies.
Linux distributions would have to undo that change.
