Dirty System - openssl problem

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Tue May 22 15:35:24 UTC 2012


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> On May 22, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > Can someone please tell me how to resolve the following multiplicity of
> > libraries, to ensure I only compile applications against a particular
> > library. I believe this emanates from my installing of openssl from the
> > ports.
>
> You could run "make deinstall" from the openssl port directory, or
> similar equivalent with pkg_delete.  You'd then also need to rebuild
> anything linked to the openssl port.
>
> Why bother, though?  FreeBSD isn't Windows; having multiple versions of a
> shared library around is supported sanely on Unix platforms....
>
>
Hi Chuck,

Thanks for that. Actually, I ended up figuring out how to address my source
of worry.
Something I planted in pkgtools.conf bit me so badly, but I nailed it.

Thanks!



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