Treah Blade wrote: > Hello guys thought I would share this little tidbit of information > that I happened across. I apologize if someone else has mentioned it > already. Anyway I was building Wget and used the option to include > openSSL and it reported that that library was not there. Well that was > odd to me because I had installed openSSH and it requires that its > there ( according to the book ). So I dug around in my system and > noticed that indeed the library was not there so I attempted to build > openSSH again and to my surprise it configures correctly without issue > and builds without issue even though openSSL is not installed on the > system. OpenSSH must have some internal version of the openSSH library > thats used. I reinstalled openSSL and rebuilt openSSH thinking that it > would find the library and use it but from the configure nothing > changes as far as I can tell. > > So long story short does openSSH even use the openSSL library anymore > at all and uses an internal copy, or does it only use an internal one > when it does not find openSSL on the system?
Look at your output from configure. You should have 'Libraries: /usr/lib/libcrypto.a ...' ssh uses static linking. I think we used to explain that at one time, but I don't see it now. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
