Hi Jack,
On 19/06/15 19:05, Jack Perdue wrote:
Howdy all,
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on RHEL, openssl-devel requires zlib-devel.
And unless great care is taking during the configure_step,
most packages will invariably pick up the version in /usr
and not the one at $EBROOTZLIB.
What would be a better one?????
lately I've been thinking that we should maybe have an openssl-devel
module in EasyBuild.
This would be a openssl module that only ships the header files, so you
don't need to install openssl-devel on your system.
However, it would still link with the openssl libraries on your system.
Currently EasyBuild doesn't do like most distributions, that split up
header files into these -devel modules, but puts everything in
So if you update your system's libraries you still have the benefits,
if the ".so" compatibility breaks your software compiled against it will
break, but you already have this case when you
link against the system libraries now, and maybe this is what you want,
so insecure applications stop working automatically.
(but I don't think RHEL ever puts out updates that break ".so"
compatibility?
I'm not sure if this is better, but it's an idea I wanted to throw out
there.
jack
Regards,
Jens Timmerman
