Re: compiling and installing OpenSSH 3.0.2

From: Richard E. Silverman (slade@shore.net)
Date: 02/28/02 

From: slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman)
Date: 28 Feb 2002 14:16:52 -0500

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

There are various reasons why the OpenSSL check might fail, and if it does
the config.log will *still* have many of the "can't find rand.h" errors
even if they're not the real problem, just because of the way the
configure script works. You need to look carefully for the *first*
instance of failure of the OpenSSL check in the log.

Just as one example of a failure mode: having a libcrypto.a (common name)
somewhere in the linker search path before the OpenSSL libraries, which
does not contain the expected routines. 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  slade@shore.net