Hi!

I've been running mageia linux for a while now, and saw an update message in my BOINC messages.

Downloading 6.12.34 and installing went fine, but when I tried running the manager, I got the error: libssl.so.0.9....not found. Mageia comes with libopenssl 1.0.0d.

Can we ensure the client works with current distros?

Thanks!

May I suggest making both a statically and a dynamically linked version.
This is easy and may mean that I would be able to upgrade the software.
Especially when libssl has undergone a major upgrade, that should be taken into account. Just pretending version 0.9.8 is 1.0.0d is simply not working. I tried it.

I am also wondering why two versions of libssl and libcrypto are used in the same program.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 3015712 28 jul 22:15 boincmgr

boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ldd boincmgr

libssl.so.0.9.8 => not found
libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => not found

libssl.so.10 => /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 (0x0000003195800000)
libcrypto.so.10 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10 (0x0000003192800000)

I asked the developer about this (I don't build them either), he said this is fixed in 6.13.8 and it'll be back-ported to a new 6.12 coming to a place near you very soon. ;-)

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That sticky thread and all those yelled warnings in the change log thread not enough of a clue? ;-)

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Sometimes you can get away with a symbolic link if the library is mature enough to have been built with updates in mind (the header.c files need to remain in the same order and new functions added "after"). glibc is a good example of a well maintained library that is usable by old or newer binaries.

For Mageia 1 (32bit), this seemed to work okay in getting the boinc manager working. Start a command line shell and insert two symlinks as seen below:

cd /usr/lib
su
password: ********
ln -s libcrypto.so.1.0.0 libcrypto.so.0.9.8
ln -s libssl.so.1.0.0 libssl.so.0.9.8

ls -l libssl*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 Dec  9 22:22 libssl.so.0.9.8 -> libssl.so.1.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 365308 May 15  2011 libssl.so.1.0.0*

[root@localhost lib]# ls -l libcrypto.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 Dec  9 22:24 libcrypto.so.0.9.8 -> libcrypto.so.1.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1871792 May 15  2011 libcrypto.so.1.0.0*

exit

The 64bit version is likely going to be in directory /usr/lib64/ instead of /usr/lib/

I only did the above minutes ago and the boinc manager seemed okay in loading 4 projects.