Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] OpenSSL 0.9.6a Beta 1 released

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:56:44PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> From: Lutz Jaenicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Lutz.Jaenicke> 1.10 breaks existing functionality, since once ".sl" is
> Lutz.Jaenicke> used, ".so" crypto engines will not be loaded any
> Lutz.Jaenicke> longer (and they were loaded with 0.9.6 as ".so").
> 
> But since shared libraries on HP-UX are normally named libfoo.sl (as
> it is for libswift and ncipher!), wouldn't requiring libfoo.so be
> considered a bug?  It feels like users of OpenSSL have to go to
> unnecessary lengths to get it working...

It is a bug. If you want to change it for 0.9.6a, it is probably not a
big problem. The number of people experiencing failure should be small
because most people will not move the .sl to .so for 0.9.6 (old) but rather
create a link, so that that both extensions would work.

Best regards,
        Lutz
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