On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:47:27PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > One of my problems with openssl is that changing compile time > > options break the ABI. And people don't seem to be willing to > > change this. > > > > With every version I upload to Debian I do check for possible > > problems before I upload it and have seen various problems > > during the 0.9.8 series. I've enabled some new options that did > > How do you check? It's a nontrivial static analysis task to automate > but with almost every new version -- not every trailing-letter bump, > however -- I find many such problems by eyeball, just in the course > of integrating the changes into our local revision control system.
I diff the old headers against the new headers. At some point I also used some software for that, but it never really worked properly. Kurt ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
