ld linking (Was: openssl-0.9.8)

[Jerry Lundström]

Auke Kok wrote:
> Jerry Lundström wrote:
>>
>>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.
> 
> 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.

I don't think so. To get ld to link on .so or .so.major would be a big 
improvment overall and it has nothing to do with just libssl.