What does this mean?

[Kyle D. Harris]

I am trying to get the latest openssl tarball. Did this config work or error out? I thought it was supposed to go through a long list of things.... Not sure what it's saying. The options of -td are saying what version it is guessing you have and d is something about debugging information. Thanks!

[root@mcsd5 openssl-0.9.7c]# ./config -td --prefix=/usr/local/ssl
Operating system: i686-whatever-linux2
Configuring for linux-elf
/usr/bin/perl ./Configure linux-elf --prefix=/usr/local/ssl

[Olivier Drouin]

Normally the "print version" switch of a program/script will exit after the printing.

Try without -t and print us what its like...

[Jerome Henry]

It says it configures using elf in /usr/local/ssl...
Is it your question ?
Beware I remember you use Redhat, better use up2date than a compilation (except if you want more crypto algos) :
http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#BUILD8

hth

J

[Kyle D. Harris]

I just scrapped the -td and did it normal with just declaring the prefix and it was fine... I'm sure there will be more problems shortly.

[Kyle D. Harris]

Jerome-
Yes i do use RH (9.0)... Is it bad that i just did the complile of the tarball?

[Jerome Henry]

Gloups... check if OpenSSL installed elsewhere than in /usr/bin, and if it did try sendmail if you use it with SSL. You'll know at once.
J

[Jerome Henry]

I mean if it installed in /usr/bin, there you are in trouble. Elsewhere no pain.
If it did install there, try to launch sendmail, which uses openssl and checks for it on startup. If it doesn't complain, you are thru.
If it does, try to reinstall openssl rpms, then rebuild your tarballs elsewhere, say /usr/local/bin
Good luck
J