openssl vs. libressl

[Rainer Müller]

On 2015-11-09 22:40, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Now what if you do
> 
> %> ln -s libssl.35.dylib libssl.1.0.0.dylib ?
> 
> (assuming that libressl indeed installs libssl.35.dylib)
> 
> If that works, it can be handled with a very simple post-destroot addition in both ports .

You should not do this. It might work for some binaries, but it is not
guaranteed to work in all cases.

See both the official statement and a blog post from a Gentoo developer
explaining the problem:

https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable#compatibility-with-openssl

https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2014/07/libressl-drop-in-and-abi-leakage

Rainer