#245 openssl wont detect

[Anonymous]

Even though openssl 0.9.6a has been installed on my
system in the standard place, /usr/local/ssl, the
./configure script with gabber will not see it.
And yes I ran ldconfig a few extra times.
I even tried putting /usr/local/ssl/lib in
/etc/ld.so.conf

[Konrad Podloucky]

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I will have a look at that in the next few days.

[Konrad Podloucky]

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Ok, I now know what the problem is. You've probably built
the static version of OpenSSL and got the libraries in
/usr/local/ssl/lib (libcrypto.a and libssl.a). Now when
checking for the libs, autoconf tries to compile a test
program. Unfortunately when using static libs the success of
the compilation depends on the compiler getting the object
files and libs in the correct order. Otherwise you will get
"Undefined references" (which is exactly what should show in
your config.log file). The problem is, that I don't know how
to get autoconf's macros to use a certain order for object
files and libraries.
So the solution for the moment, would be to install the
shared version of OpenSSL's libraries. You get them when you
configure OpenSSL with "./config shared". I haven't been
able to find a nice work-around so for now I'll just modify
the warning message of our configure script.