openssl-0.9.8

[Auke Kok]

Jerry Lundström wrote:

>Auke Kok wrote:
>  
>
>>this is an ever re-occuring problem with only one answer: you have to 
>>recompile all modules that (somehow) depend on openssl.
>>    
>>
>
>Well, no =) there is another way.
>
>If we take libssl as example the normal installtion of libraries are 
>something like this:
>
>libssl.so.0.9.8
>libssl.so.0 -> libssl.so.0.9.8
>libssl.so -> libssl.so.0
>
>( pattern: lib<name>.so.<major>.<minor>.<patchlvl>
>   and -> is a symlink. )
>
>Like Debian we should look into if we can get ld to link to the .so (or 
>the .so.major) so that when installing a newer version wont break others.
>
>Sadly, I dont know how ld priorities the selecting of libraries so 
>someone need to look into this since I'm as usally too busy.
>

This whole discussion is moot as apache2 (2.0.54) doesn't compile with 
openssl-0.9.8. Until this is fixed the openssl version bump is 
***POSTPONED***. chipig informs us that there is a 2.0.55 pending that 
addresses this issue.

sofar