On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Joe Orton <jor...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:00:25AM +0200, Kaspar Brand wrote: >> My thinking was that people should explicitly tell configure that they >> want to link with the libs in a build directory (so that they don't >> "accidentally" use a directory which might only temporarily exist - >> that's also the primary reason for preferring the static over the shared >> libs from that dir). > > This all seems totally crazy to me. Why are we adding complexity to the > httpd build system so openssl devs can skip typing the " install" part > of running "make install" when testing against modified versions of > OpenSSL? Joe
IIRC, the issue is that it doesn't build correctly even if you do that (to a non-standard location - and clearly installing to a standard location is nuts). The only extra complexity introduced by allowing a dev to skip "make install" is that the lib is in <base> instead of <base>/lib.
