On 23 Mar 2007, at 21:03, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> The general preference these days is to link to the OpenSSL libraries
> that ship with the OS, because ....
i.e., in fact (on 10.4), linking to 0.9.7l libs using 0.9.7i headers
(cf {,/usr/bin/}openssl version)
(# fgrep -rI OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER /{usr,sw}/include/openssl/opensslv.h
> /usr/include/openssl/opensslv.h:#define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER
> 0x0090709fL
> /sw/include/openssl/opensslv.h:#define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER
> 0x009070cfL
)
Given the large output of a "diff /{sw,usr}/include/openssl",
I'm not sure how many maintainers of such packages can
vouch for their correctness and safety ...
JF Mertens
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