Re: Should libcrypto be linked with -Bsymbolic ?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <4987236F.1020502%gmail.com@localhost>,
Yorick Hardy  <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>It could be that I don't understand the Makefiles, but it seems
>libcrypto is not linked with -Bsymbolic.
>
>Did I misunderstand?
>
>In src/crypto/dist/openssl/Makefile.shared target link_o.bsd seems
>to imply linking by DO_GNU_SO which adds -Bsymbolic.
>
>If I have understood everything correctly -Bsymbolic might solve
>the problem described here:
>
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2009/01/05/msg008982.html
>...
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2009/01/30/msg009203.html
>
>Any comments would be appreciated.
>

I think this is an ld_elf.so problem, and while the work around
fixes this case, it will need specific patches for each such symbol
duplication.

christos