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hi brad,

>> great. why is openssl looking for libz.*so* on a _mac_ in the first
>> place?
>>
> 
> Because DSO_convert_filename(dso, NULL) called from dlfcn_load(),
> which calls dlfcn_name_converter() is only expecting to load DSO's.
> As explained in my previous e-mail,

i got *it* after my question :-) thx.

 Mac OSX differentiates between
> DSO's and dynamic libraries (no other system I know of does this).
> The fix is to either patch this function to find the file and
> return the .so or the .dylib extension as appropriate, or modify
> dlfcn_load() to attempt both .dylib and .so extensions on MacOSX,
> or just generate all the engine DSO's with the filename of .dylib
> (even though they're not dylib's), and patch the dlfcn_name_converter
> to use .dylib as the extension instead of .so on MacOSX.

i'll leave it to far more capable hands here.

thanks again,

richard
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