Linux linking issues moving from 1.0.2t to 1.1.1c

[Dan Heinz]

> > > >The no-dso is silently not valid in 1.1.1c.  That option didn't work right, so it was unusable in practice anyway.  However, someone recently fixed that up, unfortunately after the last 1.1.1 release.
> > > >The specific patch may be possible to find on github (unless that branch has been deleted), otherwise you will have to cherry-pick the appropriate commit.
> > > 
> > > >Github PR: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9889
> > > >Commit ID: 8dcd57461972dceaaf014b71d173d0a8758e7054
> > > 
> > > >Cheers,
> > > >Richard
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the info.  I did some more digging and you had actually posted a workaround in this thread:
> > > https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/9036
> > > 
> > > I thought I would try it out.
> > > I used your example and created my own config target in file named no_dos.conf. 
> > > (
> > >     'my-linux-x86_64' => {
> > >         inherit_from    => [ 'linux-x86_64' ],
> > >         dso_scheme     => undef,
> > >     }
> > > );
> > > 
> > > ./Configure --config ../no_dso.conf my-linux-x86_64  -m32 
> > > --prefix=$install_path/openssl_32 -DPURIFY -DOPENSSL_NO_COMP no-asm 
> > > no-shared no-dso no-sse2 no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-ssl3 no-zlib 
> > > no-comp no-afalgeng no-pinshared
> > > 
> > > But I'm getting this error from the script when Configure is run:
> > > target already defined - ../no_dso.conf (offending arg: 
> > > my-linux-x86_64)
> > > 
> > > What did I miss?
> > 
> > You don't happen to have edited some Configurations/*.conf and added 
> > that name already?  I'm otherwise unsure for the moment.
>
> Figured it out.  Configure requires that '--config' be joined to its value with an equal sign.  In other words, this slight variation
> works:
>
>./Configure --config=../no_dso.conf my-linux-x86_64  -m32 --prefix=$install_path/openssl_32 -DPURIFY -DOPENSSL_NO_COMP no-asm no-shared no-dso no-sse2 no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-ssl3 no-zlib no-comp no-afalgeng no-pinshared
>

Thank you!  That seems to have fixed things up nicely, and I no longer need to link libdl when linking my library.  

Another question is why I now need to link pthreads when I did not in the 1.0.2 version?  I've added no-threads to the configuration, but I'm curious why I didn't need to previously link it.  And I'd prefer not to change too many configuration parameters if possible.