On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:24:05PM -0700, walt wrote: > Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 11:14:44AM -0700, walt wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > >> For example, when I search my /usr/pkg/lib/kde3/ I find very few libs > >> linked against libcrypto, and nothing that looks relevant to konqueror. > > > They are using dlopen only, not normal linkage. > > I don't understand the implications of that, unfortunately :o(
What KDE is doing is: - dlopen of the libcrypto and libssl - dlsym of each "interesting" symbol - redirecting to those with the help of a proxy object and esp. the first point completely defeats the purpose of shared library versioning etc. In short: it sucks. Clueless idiots. This is not a personal insult, just a technical. Joerg
