From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 22 15:32:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7B9106566C for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 15:32:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from nk11p00mm-asmtp010.mac.com (nk11p00mm-asmtp010.mac.com [17.158.161.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2818FC16 for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 15:32:03 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from [17.153.50.35] (unknown [17.153.50.35]) by nk11p00mm-asmtp010.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0M4F00F3TKH6ZI30@nk11p00mm-asmtp010.mac.com> for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 15:31:57 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.6.7580,1.0.260,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-05-21_03:2012-05-21, 2012-05-21, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1205220154 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 08:31:54 -0700 Message-id: References: To: Odhiambo Washington X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: questions Subject: Re: Dirty System - openssl problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 15:32:03 -0000 On May 22, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to resolve the following multiplicity of > libraries, to ensure I only compile applications against a particular > library. I believe this emanates from my installing of openssl from the > ports. You could run "make deinstall" from the openssl port directory, or similar equivalent with pkg_delete. You'd then also need to rebuild anything linked to the openssl port. Why bother, though? FreeBSD isn't Windows; having multiple versions of a shared library around is supported sanely on Unix platforms.... Regards, -- -Chuck