How to link a specific version of a shared library in makefile without using LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Question

I know that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is evil and it\'s a good habit to avoid using it. I have a program called server.c on a remote Solaris 9 server that holds two versi

Answer 1

I figured out that I can include the absolute path of the specific library that I want to link to and it worked fine for me:

LD = ${RPATH} -lsocket -lnsl -lpthread ${OPENSSLDIR}/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 \
         ${OPENSSLDIR}/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0

If you are using g++, Piotr Lesnicki pointed out that -l:libssl.so.1.0.0 also works. See more at the original post.

Answer 2

Do you have any links to the SSL lib? If not, can you create a link to the the desired SSL lib like

ln -s libssl.so.1.0.0 libssl.so 

in the ssl directory and try it