On 4 May 2014 23:44, Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 12:36:57AM +0200, Matt Caswell via RT wrote:
>> This patch changes the output of "pkg-config --libs libssl" from:
>> -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto
>> to:
>> -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl
>>
>> Arguably this is the strictly "correct" approach. However in practice I 
>> suspect
>> many build scripts will rely on this behaviour and break as a result of this
>> change. I'm not sure its worth it for slightly cleaner .pc files.
>
> As far as I understand if you want to have both -lssl -lcrypto you
> should use "openssl" instead of "libssl"?
>
> Anyway, I think this makes perfect sense and if things break it's
> easy enough to fix it.
>

I'd be interested to hear what other people think about this. I have
to say I was in two minds about it.

Matt
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