Hi Kenneth, Davide,

Many thanks for you replies.

Davide, is the configure log file called configure.status?

Kenneth, as far as I can tell, mod_ssl is using dynamic linking but is
there a way to tell if there are binary compatibility issues?

Finally, can I just confirm that we are talking about leaving Apache
and ModSSL alone and only changing OpenSSL?

Thanks to you both,

Bob

Kenneth Svee wrote:

> [ Davide Bianchi ]
>
> > On 2006-10-05, Bob <bobsaila@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I'm upgrading openssl on a number of servers and obviously this
> >> involves re-compiling Apache.
> >
> > Well... if your mod_ssl is using dynamic linking, it shouldn't be
> > necessary to recompile it, just upgrade the libraries.
>
> A caveat to this should be "if the two versions are binary
> compatible", and OpenSSL versions frequently aren't. My advice is also
> to try upgrading before recompiling Apache, but be prepared to have to
> recompile even though it might be a minor upgrade (say, from 0.9.7k to
> 0.9.7l).
>
>
> Rgds,
> Kenneth Svee