> I'm confused by the purpose of specifying the location of the openssl that I > have built if the dependency mechanism is searching for libcrypt > somewhere else.
Because it found a pkgconfig from OpenSSL somewhere else and it told it something you don't want to use. That's the point of the mechanism, pkgconfig takes care of all the flags and filenames, as long as the build knows which pkgconfig file to use. -- Scott
