On Monday April 25th 2005 Herman wrote: > On my system, openssl.a is now the new version that I built from the tar > ball and openssl.so is an old version that came with the original > installation. Intuitively, it doesn't look like a good idea to have two > different versions of the library in use.
If they have different version numbers you can have both a 0.9.6.x and a 0.9.7.x library at the same time. Which version a program uses, and whether is statically includes functions from the .a static library or dynamically links against a .so library is specified during linking of the program. Use ldd(1) to determine if a program uses dynamic libraries and which ones. Read up on ldconfig(8) on the version numbers and so on. > So, my next schtoopidt question is: Can I generate a .so file myself, by > doing the ./configure differently and making it again? ./configure shared You _can_ build a .so from the .a 's you already have, but using "./configure shared" in a clean directory probably is easiest! -- Marco Roeland ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
