[Privoxy-devel] OpenSSL library location

[Ian Silvester]

Hi all,

Somewhat noob questions about how privoxy locate(s) the openssl library file at runtime versus the setup on my build machine.

In order to have the headers installed for compilation, I installed OpenSSL on the Mac via Homebrew. This installs a hive under /usr/local/opt/openssl. The Mac however comes with OpenSSL libraries at /usr/lib. If I include the libraries in my install package from /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib, will Privoxy find this version of the library automatically, or will it rely on the PATH of the target machine and hence find the wrong version at /usr/lib? I hardly think I can go overwriting the system built-in library files, so what to do?

I appreciate this is a very generic "how to package software with external library dependencies" question, but I don't want to distribute something that kind-of sort-of works but might be using down-level libraries.

Thanks in advance for any schooling!

Ian