Cannot Find -lssl

skubik · 10-03-2008, 12:55 PM

I've found threads that have addressed this problem before- but I'm a little confused as to why I'm encountering the problem in the first place.
I just tried building AMANDA from source- and during compiling, an error occurred stating that it "cannot find -lssl".
The other day I tried building another package from source (can't remember which) and got the same error.

I have OpenSSL 0.9.8g installed at /usr/local/ssl, and to my recollection, I haven't had problems compiling anything using the SSL library prior to this, and I'm not sure why I'm suddenly having problems.

I have run /sbin/ldconfig numerous times.
My /etc/ld.so.conf looks like:

Code:

/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib
/usr/lib/qt/lib
/usr/local/ssl/lib
/usr/local/pgsql/lib
/usr/local/ptlib/lib

...and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is:

Code:

:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/usr/local/ptlib/lib:/usr/local/h323plus/lib

contents of /usr/local/ssl/lib are:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2007-12-16 02:02 engines/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2141214 2007-12-16 02:02 libcrypto.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 2007-12-16 02:02 libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.0.9.8*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1416533 2007-12-16 02:02 libcrypto.so.0.9.8*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  377236 2007-12-16 02:02 libssl.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 2007-12-16 02:02 libssl.so -> libssl.so.0.9.8*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  279031 2007-12-16 02:02 libssl.so.0.9.8*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2007-11-25 03:19 pkgconfig/

I'm stumped!

I currently do not have LDFLAGS set- but when I *do* have it set to "-L/usr/local/ssl/lib", I no longer seem to be getting the compilation errors. I guess that makes sense- but why isn't libssl being found in the places it's being told to find it??

Any thoughts or insights??

Thanks,

- skubik.

TB0ne · 10-03-2008, 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skubik

I've found threads that have addressed this problem before- but I'm a little confused as to why I'm encountering the problem in the first place.
I just tried building AMANDA from source- and during compiling, an error occurred stating that it "cannot find -lssl".
The other day I tried building another package from source (can't remember which) and got the same error.

I have OpenSSL 0.9.8g installed at /usr/local/ssl, and to my recollection, I haven't had problems compiling anything using the SSL library prior to this, and I'm not sure why I'm suddenly having problems.

You have OpenSSL installed, but have you installed OpenSSL-devel, the actual development libraries?

skubik · 10-03-2008, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

You have OpenSSL installed, but have you installed OpenSSL-devel, the actual development libraries?

Not to my knowledge- assuming they aren't part of the OpenSSL source itself (I downloaded the OpenSSL source and compiled it). How might I go about obtaining it if it isn't? I've looked around on the ftp for openssl.org and don't see anything besides the source files I downloaded, and things like openssl-engine. Nothing like openssl-devel.

TB0ne · 10-03-2008, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skubik

Not to my knowledge- assuming they aren't part of the OpenSSL source itself (I downloaded the OpenSSL source and compiled it). How might I go about obtaining it if it isn't? I've looked around on the ftp for openssl.org and don't see anything besides the source files I downloaded, and things like openssl-engine. Nothing like openssl-devel.

openssl-devel is the name of the binary package, which can probably be found in whatever repository you're pulling from. If you compiled everything from source, there should be a configure option to let you build the libraries. Check out the README's or docs that came with openssl...they should have what you need, in more detail than I can provide.