Compiling openssh v6.5 with --with-ssl-dir not working

[Ethier, Michael]

Hello,

I am trying to compile openssh v6.5p1 with openssl-1.0.1f and it doesn't seem to find
my custom openssl libraries and defaults to the system version. This has been working on all
previous openssh version until v6.5. Is this a bug ? More details below:

[root at test openssh-6.5p1]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/openssh-6.5p1 --with-tcp-wrappers --with-selinux --with-kerberos5 --with-ssl-engine --with-pam --with-md5-passwords --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/openssl-1.0.1f
...
...
checking whether getpgrp requires zero arguments... yes
checking openssl/opensslv.h usability... yes
checking openssl/opensslv.h presence... yes
checking for openssl/opensslv.h... yes
checking OpenSSL header version... 90802f (OpenSSL 0.9.8e-rhel5 01 Jul 2008)
checking OpenSSL library version... 90802f (OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008)
checking whether OpenSSL's headers match the library... yes
checking if programs using OpenSSL functions will link... yes


So the version of SSL is not the proper one. I have installed openssl-1.0.1f in /usr/local:
[root at iliadaccess04 src]# ls -l /usr/local/openssl-1.0.1f
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 15 08:35 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 15 08:35 include
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 15 08:35 lib
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 15 08:35 openssl

Any ideas ?

Thanks,
Mike