Prior to the instalation I have manually removed old version of Openssl
and other dirs from my previous installs and I have no
problem...everything works well.
Thanks for info.
Sasa
On 2/8/2003 7:08 PM, Geoff Thorpe a écrit:
> * Sasa STUPAR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Ok, I have found the problem. If you want to have files in the same
>> directories as original instalation of RH8 you have to use "./config
>> --prefix=/usr". Sorry for that confusion. It is the distribution which
>> is strange.
>
> Phew, I was starting to wonder what I was missing here :-) As I
> mentioned originally, using "/usr/include" as an installation prefix
> doesn't make sense because it will create the standard {include,bin,man}
> tree beneath that and install. Hence "/usr" or "/usr/local" make more
> sense. Also, especially on package management systems like RH, you're
> better not to simply install *over* existing files, particularly as a
> newer version of openssl may have removed headers that were in a
> previous version, so the old ones will end up mixed up with the new
> ones. And of course if a bug-fix release is made by RH to the older
> version, eg. 0.9.6x, that could seriously screw things up if you'd
> installed 0.9.7 over the top. It could also totally mangle your system's
> RPM database, and various other carnage is possible.
>
> The solution is to either grapple with RH's dependencies to try and
> build a replacement openssl RPM from source to upgrade to (which many
> will tell you is an only slightly less difficult problem than the
> alchemy of gold itself) or to install openssl elsewhere and make sure
> your system paths are organised appropriately. Eg. you could use
> /usr/local or /opt as a place to manually install packages such as a
> newer openssl, and make sure that the bin subdirectory is earlier in
> PATH than /usr/bin, ditto for the lib subdirectory in /etc/ld.so.conf,
> the man subdirectory in /etc/man.config, and so on ...
>
> BTW: You should check your /usr/include tree that there aren't bits and
> pieces of openssl cruft in there left over from your previous efforts -
> eg. your previous installation attempts probably created weird
> directories like /usr/include/bin, /usr/include/include, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
>
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