On 2005-06-09 13:59:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:37 pm, Eduardo P�rez wrote: > > Do you know if there are more people interested in keeping API/ABI > > compatible? > > you're overlooking the fact that the soname is set to the full version of the > library ... when you go to link with -lcrypto, the libname > 'libcrypto.so.0.9.7' is recorded in the NEEDED section of the elf instead of > 'libcrypto.so.0' ... so unless you have 0.9.8 install its library as > 'libcrypto.so.0.9.8' (which it wont), applications are going to break
The quick hack to get it working is just to keep libcrypto.so.0.9.7 for the new 0.9.8 code, as easy as that. It may create some confusion for programmers but users don't see that files. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
