openssh configure error

[William Harris_3]

i'm receiving the following message when attempting to execute configure for openssh 3.6.1:

configure: error: *** Can't find recent OpenSSL libcrypto

any ideas on how i can get beyond this?

thanks in advance,

[Paul Sperry]

LD_LIBRARY_PATH need NOT be set; LD_RUN_PATH MUST be set, but just in the
*compilation* environment.

Using sh or ksh, you can do:

LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib configure --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl

then:

LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib make

You should then get binaries that work fine, without any setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
or LD_RUN_PATH:

[John Dvorchak]

Maybe this link will be helpfull. But it looks to me that you don't have all of the libraries installed or the make is looking in the wrong place.

http://www.atomicgears.com/papers/osshhpux.html

[Bill Douglass]

According to the HP Porting & Archive Centre, OpenSSH 3.6.1 has the following dependencies:

libiconv openssl perl tcp_wrappers zlib

All are available at http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/, along with compiled and source versions of OpenSSH 3.6.1 (http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/openssh-3.6.1p1/)

[William Harris_3]

i set the LD_RUN_PATH, and the libcrypto.a file is being accessed (ls -lu), however i still receive the error.

[Michael Burbury · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check the documentation for OpenSSH, you may find it requires a specific verion of OpenSSL and the library you have may be old, hence the wording "recent" in the error message.

It could be trying to locate a library function that may not exist in your version of OpenSSL. The B_Safe OpenSSL that comes with Apache 2.0.43 seemed to work OK for me.

Cheers...

[William Harris_3]

i installed the latest version of openssl, and this worked! thanks everyone for their help.

[Rick Greene_1]

I've been unable to reach either of the US mirrors of the HPUX Porting Center for several months.

I have been using the UK mirror:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

The Wisconsin site has been saying it's "currently unavailable" for some time now, and the UT site doesn't respond at all.