Re: Broken-ness configuring with openssl-0.9.7b and openssh-3.6.1p1

From: David Favor (david_at_davidfavor.com)
Date: 04/29/03


Date: 29 Apr 2003 10:44:11 -0700

david@davidfavor.com (David Favor) wrote in message news:<e7aa9929.0304290317.55191ea@posting.google.com>...
> Sebastian Hans <hanss@in.tum.de> wrote in message news:<b8bhvj$54rc3$1@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>...
> > David Favor <david@davidfavor.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Note the include files [of openssl] are put in:
> > >
> > > /usr/local/openssl/include/openssl not /usr/local/openssl/include
> > >
> > > as I'd expect... And also as openssh-3.6.1p1 expects as its configure
> > > script builds up a gcc line:
> > >
> > > gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized \
> > > -I/usr/local/openssl/include -I/usr/src/active/zlib \
> > > -L/usr/local/openssl/lib -L/usr/src/active/zlib \
> > > conftest.c -lutil -lz -lnsl -lcrypto
> > >
> > > Again notice /usr/local/openssl/include in the gcc line, however the
> > > files are of course in /usr/local/openssl/include/openssl.
> > >
> > > It appears impossible to fix this without maybe manually copying files
> > > from /usr/local/openssl/include/openssl to its parent directory.
> >
> > What's to fix? Looks as it should to me. Doesn't openssh build
> > correctly? You didn't give an error message or anything.
> > Openssh includes e.g. opensshl/crypto.h, so -I/usr/local/openssl/include
> > is perfectly correct.
> >
> > Ciao.
> > Seb.
>
> The configure error I get is:
>
> checking OpenSSL header version... not found
> configure: error: OpenSSL version header not found
>
> This works if I:
>
> 1) cd /usr/local/openssl/include
>
> 2) cp ./openssl/* .
>
> 3) rmdir ./openssl
>
> The problem appears to be a trailing 'openssl' which is appended to
> the include directory.

The above error occurs when trying to configure openssh.



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