Re: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8

[Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:37:03PM +0200, Arian Kuschki wrote:
> On Sun 11, 22:23 +0200, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> > > If anybody knows what might have caused this problem I'd love to hear 
> > > what I did wrong. 
> > 
> > pacman probably upgraded openssl to a newer version.
> It did indeed. Sorry if I am asking the obvious but, I am just trying to 
> understand: so how did upgrading openssl break tarsnap and how did 
> reinstalling tarsnap fix things again?

tarsnap was linked against OpenSSL 0.9.8 and Arch Linux upgraded to to
OpenSSL 1.0.0 on 8th April. When tarsnap was reinstalled again, it got
linked against 1.0.0 and thus the problem got resolved.

However, I'm not sure why tarsnap was linked against libssl.so.0.9.8
and not against libssl.so.

Regards,
Matthias-Christian