openssl vs. libressl
Rainer Müller
raimue at macports.org
Mon Nov 9 13:56:37 PST 2015
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
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