[wplug] using the correct version of multiple versions of a library

Jonathan S. Billings billings at negate.org
Mon May 15 14:45:03 EDT 2006


Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> Perhaps you need to point libssl.so the the version you want to compile with.

This is a bad idea, because it's possible that the libssl.so in 
/usr/local/lib might be used by other software, and Duncan's intention 
was to only have one binary use the alternative openssl.   If you change 
the default libssl.so to another version, it's *possible* to break 
anything that linked to it before.  (Now, I suspect it probably wouldn't 
have any problems since it's only two minor releases away, but breaking 
openssl is a *bad* idea, particularly if you like things like ssh).


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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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