Incompatibility of configure with recent OpenSSL versions

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Bob Rasmussen wrote:

> I agree, it doesn't look like it should match.
> 
> Is the conftest.c file left behind somewhere?
> 
> Below is the relevant section (I think) of the log file.  Perhaps the compile
> warning is a clue.

No, unfortunately I was mistaken - it is the previous test that includes the
version number. You could try the patch that I just committed to see what is
going wrong:


commit 7d0ba5336651731949762eb8877ce9e3b52df436
Author: Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 30 10:45:41 2014 +1100

    include version number in OpenSSL-too-old error

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 67c4486..8b59d91 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2296,7 +2296,7 @@ AC_RUN_IFELSE(
 		# Check version is supported.
 		case "$ssl_library_ver" in
 			0090[[0-7]]*|009080[[0-5]]*)
-				AC_MSG_ERROR([OpenSSL >= 0.9.8f required])
+				AC_MSG_ERROR([OpenSSL >= 0.9.8f required (have "$ssl_library_ver")])
 		                ;;
 		        *) ;;
 		esac