Re: [Monotone-devel] Not so minor problem in 0.99.1

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Richard Levitte <address@hidden> wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:43:38 -0800, Zack Weinberg 
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> zackw> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Markus Wanner <address@hidden> wrote:
> zackw> > Zack,
> zackw> >
> zackw> > Can you elaborate on what's wrong with that?  libbotan1.7-dev 
> correctly
> zackw> > depends on libssl0.9.8, which provides libcrypto.so.0.9.8.
> zackw> >
> zackw> > And yes, linking that with -lcrypto works without the symlink
> zackw> > libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.0.9.8.  (Symlink only provided by 
> libssl-dev)
> zackw>
> zackw> Are you 100% sure that you can link a *program* with -lcrypto without
> zackw> that symlink existing?
>
> Nope.
[demo snipped]

Exactly.  So either botan-config shouldn't be adding -lcrypto to the
link line, or libbotan1.7-dev needs to depend on libssl-dev.  Either
way, that's a bug in the botan packaging.

zw