Hello Team,

I am trying to install openldap, Berkeley DB and openssl from source on a Debian 6.0 box. The version of the softwares are presented below:

openldap-2.4.23
db-4.8.30
openssl-1.0.0

The softwares are installed on /usr/local/openldap, /usr/local/bdb, /usr/local/openssl respectively.

Berkeley DB and openssl were successfully installed.
Then I ran the following commands to install openldap.

--- snippet ---
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/bdb/include -I/usr/local/openssl/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/bdb/lib -L/usr/local/openssl/lib"

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/openldap
-- end --

The configure script had no problem finding Berkeley DB however, it failed to find the library files for openssl.

-- snippet --
checking openssl/ssl.h usability... yes
checking openssl/ssl.h presence... yes
checking for openssl/ssl.h... yes
checking for SSL_library_init in -lssl... no
checking for ssl3_accept in -lssl... no
-- end --

I tried creating symbolic links of the openssl library files to /usr/lib , added openssl library paths to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/openssl.conf.
None of those were successful and am not sure what the problem is.

It would be great if someone can give me a hand on this.

Regards,
Shuple

Hi and welcome to LQ,

I guess you didn't build the shared openssl libraries. Run "make clean" in the openssl sources directory and the n add the "shared" option in the ./config script:
Regards

Hello Bathory,

Thank you for your reply and advise.
I recompiled the openssl source with the shared option. However, openldap is still not finding the library files.

checking for SSL_library_init in -lssl... no
checking for ssl3_accept in -lssl... no

Regards,
Shuple.

Are you sure the shared libraries were created under /usr/local/openssl/lib?
What give:
You may need also to run "make distclean" in openldap sources directory

Hello Bathory,

Thank you for your advise again. After running that command, I realized that I had to include the lib64 directory instead of lib.
Thank you so much for your help.

Regards,
Shuple