Hello,

I've been playing around installing webmin and setting it up to use SSL. In doing so I was getting the following error message when I tried to install Net::SSLeay.

You have OpenSSL-0.9.7d installed in /usr/local/ssl
*** /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl appears to be compiled with gcc (gcc -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -m486 -Wall -DSHA1_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM
) while perl is compiled with cc. Both must be compiled with the same compiler and flags. Mixing and matching compilers is not supported. at Makefile.PL line 137

So following a lot of Googling (which only yields 4 results.. 2 of which are questions as to how to get round the problem) I had a play and discovered that I could fix things simply by issuing a "make clean" in the Net:SSLeay source folder.

So in the interests of helping anyone else who finds this problem (not to mention the fact that I'll probably lose my notes at some point) I thought I'd just document the process I used.

This being the case the steps I took were:

download the tar.gz package to /tmp
cd /tmp
tar zxvf Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25.tar.gz
cd Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25
make clean
perl Makefile.pl
make install

The end result of this being that I've not got SSL encryption working and I've learnt a bit about make clean.

Try install Net::SSLeay with cpan tool :
(as root)
# cd /root
# cpan
cpan > install Net::SSLeay

Thanks for the tip but I'd already tried that. Well I actually tried getting it from cpan via webmin but I was still getting the same error. But as I didn't previously know about cpan this is something else to find out about.

That's what I like about Slackware/Linux... there's always something new for me to foul up