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Commit 911d135d authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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explain why the ABI depends on the SSL libs

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Date: September 1, 2005
Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
URL: http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html
Date: September 2, 2005
Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
URL: http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html
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......@@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ Project cURL Angle of this Problem
affects users - GPL application authors only - of our lib as it comes
included and delivered on some distros.
libcurl has different ABI when built with different SSL/TLS libraries due to
two reasons:
1. No one has worked on fixing this. The mutex/lock callbacks should be set
with a generic libcurl function that should use the proper underlying
functions.
2. The CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION option is not possible to "emulate" on GnuTLS
but simply requires OpenSSL.
Distro Angle of this Problem
A distro can provide separate libcurls built with different SSL/TLS libraries
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