Thanks, Tom. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out!
I think I'm good now. I ran `readelf -d libpq.so | grep runpath` and I see that the path I specified in --with-libraries is present (albeit after my system path). It also appears the version I expected of libssl is being used (libssl.so.1.1).
At this point I think it's fairly straightforward to set the rpath to lock down the runtime linking as you mentioned. Thanks again!
Joshua Poehls <joshua@poehls.me> writes: > rpath and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are only relevant for the runtime > linking/resolution, right? My concern is that at *compilation time* the > wrong version of OpenSSL is being picked up.
No; --with-libraries will control what's linked against. The problem you face is that the dynamic linker has its own idea of how to resolve the library references at runtime. (ldd just reports on what the dynamic linker would do; there's no trace in the executable file of exactly which copy of a shlib was linked against.)
