RE: OpenSSL linking question; handling 1.0.0 vs 0.9.8

2012-06-21 Thread Jason Schultz
: OpenSSL linking question; handling 1.0.0 vs 0.9.8 > > Hi Jason, > > some general things about linking: > > - The symbolic link(s) libcrypto.so pointing to libcrypto.so.0.9.8 > are only needed during BUILD time. On a host where no compiling > happens the symbolic links a

Re: OpenSSL linking question; handling 1.0.0 vs 0.9.8

2012-06-20 Thread Christian Hohnstaedt
Hi Jason, some general things about linking: - The symbolic link(s) libcrypto.so pointing to libcrypto.so.0.9.8 are only needed during BUILD time. On a host where no compiling happens the symbolic links are not required. - While linking the application, the linker opens the library libcryp

OpenSSL linking question; handling 1.0.0 vs 0.9.8

2012-06-20 Thread Jason Schultz
I'm building and running an application that uses OpenSSL on SUSE Linux. I don't know a lot about linking in general, just very basic stuff, so my question might be better posed to a Linux forum, but it might be specific to OpenSSL. Let me describe the scenario. I have built installed Op