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authorRichard Levitte <[email protected]>2002-07-16 12:20:06 +0200
committerRichard Levitte <[email protected]>2002-07-16 12:20:06 +0200
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parentThere are problems on certain platforms, and possible answers on how to (temp... (diff)
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Actually, the "bug" is really documented in the man-page for ld, so
it's really a misfeature according to the jargon file (4.0.0) definition: ":misfeature: /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ /n./ A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved. Since it results from a deliberate and properly implemented feature, a misfeature is not a bug."
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* System libcrypto.dylib and libssl.dylib are used by system ld on MacOS X.
[NOTE: This is currently undergoing tests, and may be removed soon]
-This is really a bug in ld, which seems to look for .dylib libraries along
-the whole library path before it bothers looking for .a libraries. This
+This is really a misfeature in ld, which seems to look for .dylib libraries
+along the whole library path before it bothers looking for .a libraries. This
means that -L switches won't matter unless OpenSSL is built with shared
library support.