3.0 beta1 feedback about (shared) library names

[Michael Richardson]

I downloaded and compiled opensssl 3.0.0-beta1 from git today.
I installed into a private prefix.

While my debian desktop system has:

%ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  357056 Jul  8  2020 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl3.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1000534 Feb 16 17:08 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 Feb 16 17:08 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so -> libssl.so.1.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  435704 Jul  4  2017 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  431232 Dec 23  2019 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  593696 Feb 16 17:08 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.1

%ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5399144 Feb 16 17:08 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Feb 16 17:08 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.1.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2494464 Jul  4  2017 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2504576 Dec 23  2019 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3031904 Feb 16 17:08 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1

WTF is libssl3.so?  I still don't know, but:

%dpkg -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl3.so
libnss3:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl3.so
something up there that should be concerning, because maybe it will cause confusion.

My newly installed openssl 3 has:

%ls -l /sandel/3rd/openssl3/lib
total 16188
drwxr-xr-x 2 mcr mcr    4096 Jun 21 21:29 engines-3/
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcr mcr 9307420 Jun 21 21:29 libcrypto.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mcr mcr      14 Jun 21 21:29 libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mcr mcr 5205856 Jun 21 21:29 libcrypto.so.3*
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcr mcr 1251782 Jun 21 21:29 libssl.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mcr mcr      11 Jun 21 21:29 libssl.so -> libssl.so.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mcr mcr  794496 Jun 21 21:29 libssl.so.3*
drwxr-xr-x 2 mcr mcr    4096 Jun 21 21:29 ossl-modules/
drwxr-xr-x 2 mcr mcr    4096 Jun 21 21:29 pkgconfig/

So I see that the versioned .so file will be somewhat related to the version.
Distros will be able to ship openssl1.x and openssl3.x shared libraries at
the same time.

But, having both "libssl-dev" and "libssl3-dev" installed at the same time is
going to be a problem.

I think that the differences in ABI may be significant enough that you should
consider calling it "libssl3" and "libcrypto3".  Yeah, maybe that's uncool,
but it may be pragmatic.

{ps: I am working on the ruby openssl library next to see what happens}

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]               Never tell me the odds!                 | ipv6 mesh networks [
]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works        |    IoT architect   [
]     mcr at sandelman.ca  http://www.sandelman.ca/        |   ruby on rails    [

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