> Formally this puts us, OpenSSL developers, in rather tight situation. > Indeed, as we can't possibly have access to *all* platforms OpenSSL can > or *could* be compiled at, statements like "this solves my problem in my > out-of-date setup and I don't know how it affects others [who are most > likely majority!]" doesn't really make life easier, does it? So > *please*, do some background research, provide pointers or information > itself [like snippets from manual pages], etc. For example in this > particular case request originator could have pointed at ld manual page > at http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/ and ratiocinate that "given that > another major IRIX release is highly unlikely to appear and -none is > still supported by 6.5, replacing -notall with -none resolves this > backward compatibility issue and covers both up-to-date and legacy > setups." One can argue what would be the point for him to do it, if an > OpenSSL developer could do it [as we obviosuly see here]. Well, it's > just that *I* *happened* to be familiar with IRIX, that's all. This is > by no means guarantees that next time a similar matter will be left > unattended or platform simply declared unsupported. A.
if you had not been, by chance, familiar with that particular platform, you still could have replied with a brief mail asking me to figure it out. My intend was to merely point out the issue to you developers. Maybe I should have stated more explictly that of course if you needed further details you should not hesitate to say so. Georg -- Georg Schwarz http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 177 8811442 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
