Tim Ruehsen <[email protected]> writes:

>> OK, that worked, thanks; indeed, all I had to do was
>> 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib/pkgconfig ./configure blah blah'.  Easy
>> enough.  (That's the default location for a built-from-source openssl; is
>> openssl not putting its .pc file where it should?)
>
> I guess yes, if you 'make install' your local copy of OpenSSL.
>
>> But that's only half the battle, because that only covers the case where
>> the Mac user has pkg-config installed.  Pkg-config doesn't come with OSX or
>> the Apple dev tools.  Up through wget 1.16, the pkgconfigless Mac user
>> could rely on --with-libssl-prefix to point wget to the right place.
>
> Please see the output of ./configure --help.
> If you don't have pkg-config installed, please try the following
> Add "-I/usr/local/ssl/include" to your CFLAGS
>  and add "-L/usr/local/ssl/lib" to your LDFLAGS.
> export both and ./configure. 

another problem I know of with openSSL is that it installs file under
/usr/local/lib instead of /usr/local/lib64 and the configure script
looks for files under lib64 on 64 bits systems.  That is how autoconf
works but unfortunately it gives troubles with openssl :-(

Giuseppe

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