ld linking (Was: openssl-0.9.8)

[Auke Kok]

Jerry Lundström wrote:

>Auke Kok wrote:
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>>Jerry Lundström wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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of course, but I just wanted to make sure that people realize that 
openssl-0.9.8 isn't ready yet for inclusion in moonbase. Of course, the 
ld issue would benefit a LOT of modules, not even openssl (readline 
comes to mind, and others).

sofar