compiling and installing OpenSSH 3.0.2

From: Andrew Falanga (ExcaliburAF@nospam.netscape.net)
Date: 02/28/02 

From: Andrew Falanga <ExcaliburAF@nospam.netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:05:35 -0700

Hello to everyone,

     Ok, here's my problem. I've got to get OpenSSH running on a Cobalt
Qube. I searched through cobalts web site and no "easy" installation
for OpenSSH was available. So, I downloaded a source rpm from
ftp.openbsd.org/lot's/more/dirs/here. This proved to be quite useless.
  So, I went for downloading the source packages, ie.
openssh-3.0.2p1.tar.gz.

     After downloading, I unpacked via tar -zxvf, in to /usr/local/src.
  I then did less INSTALL, to read up on how to go about the install.
It meantioned that I'd need a current version of OpenSSL, ie 0.6.x - or
higher. After doing some checking, I discovered that I didn't have any
OpenSSL libraries installed, of any version. So, I downloaded
openssl-0.9.6c.tar.gz. Did the same procedure and unpacked to
/usr/local/src.

     Did the build and install, ie, ./config, make, make test, and make
install. Everything went great. Now, I stuck to defaults, didn't pass
./config any special setting. Therefore, everything was installed to
/usr/local/ssl. Now, back to my installtion of OpenSSH.

     I do ./configure and everything is going great until...it bombs out
saying it can't find a valid SSL library. I read through INSTALL, and
find a --with-ssl-dir= option to pass to ./configure. I do this using
the directory meantioned above. Same result. I check to see if
/usr/local/ssl actually exits. It does. So I try a few different
variations of the option --with-ssl-dir= such as:

--with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl/include
--with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl/lib

    I'm sure you get the idea. All this with the same result. So, what
am I missing? I looked through config.log as the exit code suggests,
and beside being completely lost, I find several errors that the
configure script can't find openssl/rand.h. In which case, it's
absolutely correct, no such directory or file exists.

    So, simply put, what do I do and where do I go?

Andy

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