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Re: Packages that need to be rebuilt agaisnt libssl0.9.8



On Thu, 06 Oct 2005, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Furthermore, as OpenSSL symbols aren't versioned, this will lead to
> random crashes if a binary ends up being linked to both version, won't
> it?

Oh crap!

OpenSSL *must* version its symbols, it is the kind of lib that ends up
linked to libs that end up linked into other libs or even worse, end up in
nsswitch modules and thus shadow-linked to every dang thing in the system.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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