Re: OpenSSL 0.9.6 and shared libraries

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Albert Chin-A-Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

china> I've attached the patch I'm working with at the moment. It's a work in
china> progress. The patch adds support for building shared libraries on
china> IRIX.

I'll save that patch to be at least an inspiration for what I do :-).

china> A downside is that it creates the symbolic links (libssl.so and
china> libsso.so.0) at 'make install' time. This means that no
china> binaries can be linked against the shared libraries during a
china> build. This is not such a bad thing though.

The current system builds the shared libraries during build time...

china> Linking a binary against a shared library is not so simple. If
china> you plan to do this, let me know because more "magick" will
china> need to be done. I hope it is not necessary though as life will
china> be so much simpler without doing this. 

I'm currently avoiding linking against the shared libraries.  We'll
see what I do about that in the future (if!).  Please tell me the
magic, just in case :-).

china> Also, why do you '-L. -lcrypto' when building libssl.so? The
china> shared library version of libssl should mimick the static
china> version.

I'm expressing a dependency, which feels like the right thing to do.
libssl is very much depending on libcrypto.  If you look at many
shared libraries with ldd, you will for example see a dependency on
libc of a certain version.

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