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 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
