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Re: OpenSSL shared libs.

From: Götz Babin-Ebell <babinebell_at_trustcenter.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:02:37 +0100

v_at_drvandv.com wrote:
> I have a short question. I compilled curl with ssl support. During make test
> I realized that curl is looking for libssl.so.0.9.6 and libcrypto.so.0.9.6 .
> Is it possible to compile with support for lib*.so.0 or lib*.so, so that if
> I change the version of openssl, I wouldn't need to recompile curl or at
> least would make for a much easier maintanance?

Sorry.

Until at least OpenSSL 1.0 the interface is changing.

So running an application with a different version of
OpenSSL as that version you build it will fail.
(for example: building a application with 0.9.6x and
  running it with 0.9.7 will definitive fail.)

Bye

Goetz

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Received on 2002-10-29