Re: [Fetchmail-users] fetchmail .26 0, wheezy 1

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 11.02.2015 um 16:24 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> Greetings all;
> 
> Trying to get the tarball built as wheezy's fetchmail is .21, sorta of 
> old.
> 
> All the openssl stuff I can find is installed, but in about an hours worth 
> of trying to configure it for ssl support, my point it at the numerous 
> where stuff is installed, am not able to get anything better than this at 
> the end of the ./configure execution:
> configure: error: SSL support enabled, but OpenSSL not found
> 
> Can someone tell what the heck it is actually looking for?
> 
> Thanks all.

Hi Gene,

I, just like Rob, suspect the problem is one or more missing -dev
packages.  On Debian-based systems, you can often take a short cut and
just run "apt-get build-dep fetchmail" as root to have the system fetch
and install all requisite packages that you need for the a native build
of the source package fetchmail (meaning the package installs on
computers of the same type as the one you're typing the command on).
This works if the newer package you are trying to build has the same
requisites as the one that shipped with the distribution.  For a
wheezy-with-6.3.21 to 6.3.26 upgrade, I expect it works, but I haven't
got a sufficient "bare" system to test this.

if Rob's message (i. e. install the -dev packages) doesn't get you where
you want to be, then please check the config.log file that results from
the ./configure.

The config.log is quite verbose, and contains lots of debugging
information not related to the actual problem, but often also sells a
clue on the command lines tried, with which test programs, and the error
messages.  Best to search in it for the error message you've seen on the
screen from ./configure run,  and that you quoted above.



Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Matthias