Unable to build OpenSSH-9.8p1 with custom SSL

[radiatejava]

That worked Darren and also the config.log gave the hint, thank you!

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 5:18 PM Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 at 09:58, radiatejava <radiatejava at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to build OpenSSH 9.8p1 with my SSL installed at
> > /opt/customssl, but it fails. It fails at the configure cmd itself. It
> > does not seem to be honor --with-ssl-dir=/opt/customssl option. What
> > could be the issue here?
>
> Assuming your custom thing is API compatible, the usual reason for
> this is that it's compiled as a shared library, but is not in the
> linker's runtime library path.  This will be visible in config.log
> (you will need to scroll back past all the defines to find the error).
>
> Depending on your system there's usually a few potential ways to fix it:
> 1) add the directory path to the system's runtime library search path
> 2) tell your linker to add the directory to the runtime library search
> path (-R/-rpath).
> 3) link in your thing as a static library.
>
> We use #2 in the regression tests on Linux, which is something like:
>
> $ ./configure --with-ssl-dir=/opt/customssl --with-rpath=-Wl,-rpath,
>
> (note trailing comma is significant) but this may be different on
> other platforms or configurations.
>
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