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Re: openssl 0.9.7 in NetBSD?



itojun%iijlab.net@localhost writes:

>>>     here are differences in terms of library symbols.  it seems that the
>>>     biggest difference is rename of des_xx functions to DES_xx functions.
>>>     it has a large impact on existing codebase, i guess.  we may need to
>>>     provide aliases or whatever.
>>      DES/des functions are not renames, but API changes.  see des_old.h
>>      shipped with 0.9.7b.  we may need to supply old functions to users,
>>      for backward compat's sake (or a shlib major bump).
>
>       a split of libdes and libcrypto is clearly needed.
>       which functions have to be provided by libdes?

but libdes and libcrypto will then provide the same symbols. There are
applications that link agaist both libcrypto and libdes.

Love

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