David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: >> 3.4. Competitive Analysis: > >> Moving OpenSSL to /usr/ will also help third-party software autoconf >> scripts to find OpenSSL in Solaris more easily which is what our >> users >> will definitely benefit from. No more manually adding >> "--with-ssl-dir" >> options for configure scripts. > > Although I support the move of the OpenSSL components out of /usr/sfw, > I think it's important to realize the above benefit is a mixed > blessing. While certainly configure scripts will more easily discover > the presence of OpenSSL in the system, it also makes that resulting > software more susceptible to incompatible changes in the future. A > good example of this occurred with the introduction of > > PSARC 2006/019 OpenSSL upgrade to 0.9.8a
I don't see how the libs being in /usr/lib versus /usr/sfw/lib makes any difference. If you use the one that is in Solaris you use it as Volatile (External) and that means you have to take the meager binary compatibility that OpenSSL gives. If you don't want that don't use OpenSSL use something else. -- Darren J Moffat
