[openssl-users] Build from source; library not found?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Hiran Chaudhuri
<hiran.chaudhuri at mail.de> wrote:
> Am 19-May-2017 00:36:18 +0200 schrieb openssl-users at dukhovni.org:
>
>> hiran.chaudhuri> Now this is interesting. Yes, openssl can find both the
>> libraries
>> hiran.chaudhuri> libssl and libcrypto. Would that imply that rpath is only
>> a setting
>> hiran.chaudhuri> for application (executables) but not for shared
>> libraries?
>> hiran.chaudhuri> In that case the test I tried would be totally
>> meaningless.
>>
>> Yes, that's correct.
>
> NO, it is not correct, shared libraries also have rpaths for their
> own dependencies. And when building OpenSSL for installation in
> non-default locations (not /usr/lib and the like) the libraries
> should have an rpath.
>
> It would sound logical. But how could I then enforce the runpath to be set
> in the libraries?

https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Compilation_and_Installation#Using_RPATHs.

I've never understood the use case - build a new/updated openssl,
compile time link against the new one, and then runtime link against
the old one.

Jeff