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

[Gene H. <ghe...@wd...>]

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 04:21:17 PM Matthias Andree wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it did solve another problem.  i was not aware of the build-deps 
option to apt-get.  Thank you Matthias.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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