On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 04:58:38PM +0200, shivaramakrishna chakravarthula wrote: > Hi, > > I have compatibility issues for my application with new versions of OpenSSL > and I want to use the older version of OpenSSL with my application. So, I > want to link my application with an OpenSSL library built with the custom > name so that it works fine on all systems and I can be assured of using the > desired OpenSSL version. I am using RPATH to locate the libraries in > runtime and I want to make sure my libraries don't conflict with existing > libraries. How old is this "older version"? The functionality you want sounds exactly like the "variant SONAMEs introduced in commit https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/822b5e2645a99bea15329bd66c9723c7e7119cdb but that's only in 1.1.0g and later. -Ben
