On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Michael Mueller wrote:

> Would it be useful/possible for the .configure tool to throw an error when
> there is a mismatch between the OpenSSL version from it's header files and
> the version of the libs used by the linker? I didn't notice the mismatch
> until I specifically looked for conformance using "curl --version" and "ldd
> curl".

It would be useful, but:

A) many people cross-compile and then it couldn't do that check

B) most of these problems (finding and using another lib in run-time than the
one configure detected) occur _after_ configure runs anyway, when you invoke
your things with an environment outside of configure.

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