In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 20 May 2005 14:45:01 +0200, Corinna 
Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

vinschen> Sorry for a possibly dumb question, but I don't quite
vinschen> understand the engines concept.  Is there a good reason that
vinschen> the engine shared libs are created w/o version information?

The engine shared libs are plug-ins.  soname versions are not quite
relevant in that case, and OpenSSL has an internal compatibility
checking through an internal version number.

vinschen> The problem is that Makefile.shared is called from
vinschen> engines/Makefile without LIBVERSION being set to a sensible
vinschen> value, as it's done in the top level Makefile:

Correct.

vinschen> Even worse, the engines Makefile doesn't even have the
vinschen> version information set anywhere, so it's not clear to me
vinschen> how I can generate the engines with version info.

You simply don't :-).

Cheers,
Richard

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