checking for OpenSSL library ... not found

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 07:12:56PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> checking for OpenSSL library ... not found
>>
>> ./auto/configure: error: SSL modules require the OpenSSL library.
>> You can either do not enable the modules, or install the OpenSSL library
>> into the system, or build the OpenSSL library statically from the source
>> with nginx by using --with-openssl=<path> option.
>> </snip>
>>
>> *****
>>
>> I believe OpenSSL is present (I just built it from sources):
>>
>> $ ls /usr/local/ssl/
>> bin  certs  include  lib  man  misc  openssl.cnf  private
>>
>> $ ls /usr/local/ssl/lib/
>> engines  libcrypto.a  libssl.a  pkgconfig
>>
>> *****
>>
>> Here was my configure. $THIS_USER and $THIS_GROUP was set properly to
>> my login and group.
>>
>> ./auto/configure --with-debug --with-http_ssl_module
>> --prefix="$THIS_DIR/ac" --http-proxy-temp-path="$THIS_DIR/ac/temp"
>> --user="$THIS_USER" --group="$THIS_GROUP"
>> --with-cc-opt="-I/usr/local/ssl/include"
>> --with-ld-opt="/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a
>> /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a
>>
>> *****
>>
>> I believe --with-cc-opt and --with-ld-opt is the preferred (required?)
>> way to do things for local/custom OpenSSL
>> (http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2010-April/019644.html).
>>
>> Does anything look out of place?
>
> You are trying to explicitly specify library files to be loaded on
> all ld invocations.  This is wrong.  Instead, you should specify a
> _path_ to load libraries from, much like you did with include
> directories.
>
> Something like this should work for you:
>
> ./configure --with-cc-opt="-I/usr/local/ssl/include" \
>             --with-ld-opt="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib"
Thanks Maxim. This did not work, and its the reason I moved to envars
to fully specify everything.

*****

$ auto/configure --with-cc-opt="-I/usr/local/ssl/include"
--with-ld-opt="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ldl"
checking for OS
 + Linux 3.11.10-200.fc19.x86_64 x86_64
checking for C compiler ... found
 + using GNU C compiler
...

Configuration summary
  + using system PCRE library
  + OpenSSL library is not used
  + md5: using system crypto library
  + sha1: using system crypto library
  + using system zlib library

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$ auto/configure --with-cc-opt="-I/usr/local/ssl/include"
--with-ld-opt="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ldl /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssla.
/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a"
checking for OS
 + Linux 3.11.10-200.fc19.x86_64 x86_64
...

checking for --with-ld-opt="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ldl
/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssla. /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a" ... not
found
auto/configure: error: the invalid value in
--with-ld-opt="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ldl /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssla.
/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a"

*****

Any thoughts on how to proceed?

Jeff