[SOLVED] Cyrus SASL installation problem "OpenSSL not found"

fast-reflexes · 07-31-2010, 09:53 AM

I have to reinstall Cyrus SASL since I want to have NTLM support. So I download the latest version (2.1.23 which was previously installed on the same computer I might add) and start to configure it. I choose to include OpenSSL with flag

Code:

--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl

But it can't seem to find the installation. This is what the output says:

Code:

./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl | sed --silent '/evp/,/OpenSSL/p'
checking for openssl/evp.h... yes
checking for EVP_DigestInit in -lcrypto... no
checking for OpenSSL... no
configure: WARNING: OpenSSL not found -- OTP will be disabled
configure: WARNING: OpenSSL not found -- SRP will be disabled
configure: WARNING: Disabling GSSAPI - no include files found
configure: WARNING: OpenSSL not found -- NTLM will be disabled
configure: WARNING: OpenSSL not found -- PASSDSS will be disabled
checking for openssl/evp.h... yes
checking for EVP_DigestInit in -lcrypto... no
checking for OpenSSL... no
configure: WARNING: Disabling GSSAPI - no include files found

It seems it can't find my OpenSSL. I tried with another computer and there, it finds OpenSSL no matter what dir I specify for it. I've tried to have a look at cmulocal/openssl.m4 but I can't figure out the meaning of it. I also tried to have a look at the config.log file that is created when running configure but it's huge and I can't find any more info at first glance.

Suggestions on the Internet are to specify LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS which I've done without success. I've run ldconfig after including the SSL-libdirs and no success there either.

My OpenSSL situation might be the problem. I first had version 0.9.8n installed along with 0.9.8n solibs (what are these?). I then removed both of these, installed 1.0.0a and then added 0.9.8n solibs because httpd was complaining. I read somewhere that SASL is reacting the way it is because I might have two installations but the solibs is not a complete installation, no binaries. Also, I uninstalled the 0.9.8n solibs but I still had no success with the configuration and OpenSSL could still not be found.

bathory · 07-31-2010, 12:38 PM

Hi,

You need to build the shared openssl libraries. So go into openssl sources, run "make clean" and recompile using

Code:

./config shared

Then go into cyrus sources, run again make clean and recompile

Regards

fast-reflexes · 07-31-2010, 05:28 PM

Thanks a lot! That was it.. got it up and running now even though I got a loooot of warnings (and possibly errors) when compiling... Thanks!!

jqsjqs · 12-28-2011, 02:57 PM

I kept having this problem (openssl not found) and had tried all the advice given in many many forums including updating env vars to point to /usr/local/ssl (i.e., LDFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc.) and also tried doing the sed patch mentioned in other forums. Ultimately, the best advice was one thread where someone suggested looking in config.log (doh!).

After many fruitless hours it turns out that on 64-bit machines cyrus-sasl is looking in /usr/local/ssl/lib64 ... NOT /usr/local/ssl/lib... but /usr/local/ssl/lib64 is not created when you compile openssl. So after creating a symbolic link from /usr/local/ssl/lib64 to /usr/local/ssl/lib (i.e., "ln -s /usr/local/ssl/lib /usr/local/ssl/lib64) then config found openssl no problem.

I think this, in combination with the "./config shared" advice on compiling openssl, is all I needed at the end of the day.

Thanks!
John Q.