I've now looked at both items, and even tried implementing. It became a too large
change for the 0.9.7 development track, so I'm moving this to 0.9.8. As a matter of
fact, I just implemented full -R/-rpath support for 0.9.8-dev, for the platforms where
I could find out how it should be done...
[levitte - Fri Dec 13 16:19:05 2002]:
> I haven't fixed the following two items. I'll keep them for later,
> we're just way too close to release of 0.9.7 to start on it. Maybe
> for 0.9.7a?
>
> > * Manual pages should be created before make install. Super users
> > don't like watching make install compile half the software.
> > They want it to be ready for swift installation.
> >
> > * When linking the libraries, make sure that libssl finds libcrypto
> > and that they both find all their external dependencies at run time.
> > This is accomplished by the -R, -rpath or --rpath flags which behave
> > just like the -L flag. It is not necessary when all libraries can be
> > found using the default paths. To recap: giving --prefix to config
> > should automatically add -R${prefix}/lib and giving -L... to config
> > should automatically generate the same -R...
> > (Which flag to use depends on which compiler one is using.)
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