I recently tried to compile the August 9th snapshot of openssl 0.9.7 with static zlib enabled. The build failed because Configure only adds "-lz" for dynamic zlib. I think that this patch fixes the problem. Doug
--- openssl-0.9.7-beta3/Configure.orig Thu Aug 1 14:06:26 2002 +++ openssl-0.9.7-beta3/Configure Mon Aug 12 17:55:20 2002 @@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ { $cflags = "-DZLIB $cflags"; $cflags = "-DZLIB_SHARED $cflags" if $zlib == 2; - $lflags = "$lflags -lz" if $zlib == 2; + $lflags = "$lflags -lz" } # You will find shlib_mark1 and shlib_mark2 explained in Makefile.org __ Doug Kaufman Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]