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

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

Am 12.02.2015 um 23:11 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 03:56:51 PM Rob MacGregor wrote:
>> On Wed Feb 11 2015 at 3:25:11 PM Gene Heskett <ghe...@wd...> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I'd expect it's looking for the library, which is probably named
>> "libssl-dev".
> 
> As it turned out, I was the dummy, I thought it wanted a path to it, in 
> the end it was more than smart enough to find and use it if I just 
> did --with-ssl=yes.  So its in and running fine.

Where --with-ssl and --with-ssl=yes are technically the same in many,
but not all, GNU autoconf based ./configure scripts.  :-)

Good speed.