Forum OpenACS Q&A: Compiler screams and dies during nsopenssl compilation

1: Compiler screams and dies during nsopenssl compilation

Posted by Jade Rubick on 04/20/03 06:34 AM

I'm following Joel's install guide (and I've looked through Scott's install guide for nsopenssl as well -- they're pretty much the same).

When I get to compilation time:

www:/usr/local/src/aolserver/nsopenssl-2.1# make OPENSSL=/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c
gcc -I/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/include -I../aolserver/include -D_REENTRANT=1 -DNDEBUG=1 -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-unused -mcpu=i686 -DHAVE_CMMSG=1 -DUSE_FIONREAD=1 -DHAVE_COND_EINTR=1 -c -o nsopenssl.o nsopenssl.c
gcc -I/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/include -I../aolserver/include -D_REENTRANT=1 -DNDEBUG=1 -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-unused -mcpu=i686 -DHAVE_CMMSG=1 -DUSE_FIONREAD=1 -DHAVE_COND_EINTR=1 -c -o config.o config.c
gcc -I/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/include -I../aolserver/include -D_REENTRANT=1 -DNDEBUG=1 -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-unused -mcpu=i686 -DHAVE_CMMSG=1 -DUSE_FIONREAD=1 -DHAVE_COND_EINTR=1 -c -o init.o init.c
gcc -I/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/include -I../aolserver/include -D_REENTRANT=1 -DNDEBUG=1 -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-unused -mcpu=i686 -DHAVE_CMMSG=1 -DUSE_FIONREAD=1 -DHAVE_COND_EINTR=1 -c -o ssl.o ssl.c
gcc -I/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/include -I../aolserver/include -D_REENTRANT=1 -DNDEBUG=1 -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-unused -mcpu=i686 -DHAVE_CMMSG=1 -DUSE_FIONREAD=1 -DHAVE_COND_EINTR=1 -c -o thread.o thread.c
gcc -I/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/include -I../aolserver/include -D_REENTRANT=1 -DNDEBUG=1 -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-unused -mcpu=i686 -DHAVE_CMMSG=1 -DUSE_FIONREAD=1 -DHAVE_COND_EINTR=1 -c -o tclcmds.o tclcmds.c
/bin/rm -f nsopenssl.so
gcc -shared -nostartfiles -o nsopenssl.so nsopenssl.o config.o init.o ssl.o thread.o tclcmds.o -L/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c/lib -lssl -lcrypto
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [nsopenssl.so] Error 1

Any suggestions? I'm not really sure what this means.. I'm on Debian 3.0r1. I downloaded the openssl source code to compile against by doing apt-get source openssl

2: Re: Compiler screams and dies during nsopenssl compilation (response to 1)

Posted by Lachlan Myers on 04/20/03 07:27 AM

There are a couple of possible issues.

Looks like the linker is looking for ssl libs (compiling openssl will install libraries in /usr/lib/ssl by default), so just check where Debian puts these.
Versions are important with OpenSSL. The 0.96c is quite old. I think 0.96g was the last, and the latest is 0.97. However 0.97 does change a few default locations and cause a different set of headaches!

Heres an earlier thread on RedHat 9 problems http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=92882

3: Re: Compiler screams and dies during nsopenssl compilation (response to 1)

Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 04/21/03 12:03 AM

Hello Jade,

Look for libssl.so in your system and make sure the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains the path to that file, at least that's what I would try.

Hope this helps,

4: Re: Compiler screams and dies during nsopenssl compilation (response to 3)

Posted by Jade Rubick on 04/22/03 06:47 AM

Thanks for your advice, everyone.

I tried LD_LIBRARY_PATH (because that seemed easiest):

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
# make clean
# make OPENSSL=/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c

I get the same error.

So it looks to me like the best route is going to be to download more current OPENSSL source code and link against that. Ug.

5: Re: Compiler screams and dies during nsopenssl compilation (response to 1)

Posted by Jade Rubick on 04/23/03 11:37 PM

Well it looks like the solution is pretty easy:

apt-get install libssl-dev
make OPENSSL=/usr/lib/ssl

That seems to have compiled, at least. I'll forward this on to Joel, so that perhaps he can put this under Debian.