Openssh portable and specific version of openssl

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

> Hello!
> Why is it that openssh portable requires always the specific
> version of openssl it was compiled with, even when there are
> no ABI changes in the library? Just a precaution?

OpenSSL have a nasty habit of breaking binary compatability between
releases of their library. The check has been loosened in CVS portable
OpenSSH to allow upgrading OpenSSL releases which only change the
patchlevel.

-d

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