Re: Can't configure Openssh

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:13:42PM -0800, paul@cuenet.com wrote:
> Not sure if the mailing list is working today....nothing happens when I

The people who run the list decided to convert it from an unmoderated one to a moderated one. Posts come through in bursts whenever one of the human moderators gets a chance to go over them.

> configure: error: *** Can't find recent OpenSSL libcrypto (see

I'm sure it contains a lot more information than you reported.

> However, when I do a

Yes, but where are the headers? How about shared libraries?

> which indicates I have a pretty recent libcrypto properly installed.

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Or part of one. Did you compile openssl yourself? What ./configure parameters did you use?

> Anyone have any

If there is no shared library version of it, then ld.so.conf and ldconfig are not required. Static libraries (*.a) are handled by the linker (ld).

> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Post the options you used with ./configure -- for both openssl and openssh -- and track down the relevant sections of config.log. Received on Mon Nov 25 12:53:12 2002