Post-compile RSA error with 1.2.2, Solaris 7, OpenSSL 0.9.5

Ben Taylor bent at clark.net
Thu Mar 2 07:58:53 EST 2000


On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Rip Loomis wrote:

> It looks as though even though the autoconf notes
> that it found OpenSSL, there's a problem with my
> library paths such that libssl can't be found.
> I'm not sure yet, but I'm guessing that the problem
> is at runtime rather than compile time.

Generally when I configure openssh on solaris, I have to add
env LDFLAGS="-R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/ssl" ./configure
to get it to build without intervention.  I haven't had a whole lot
of time recently to work on this, but it sounds like this might be your
problem.

Ben

> 
> If anyone has other suggestions, feel free to send them
> directly to me, and I'll summarize to the list
> when I sort things out.  Thanks--
> 
>     --Rip
> 
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Ben Taylor wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Rip Loomis wrote:
> > 
> > > If I try to ssh to a host that is running SSH, or I try to start the local
> > > sshd, I get (with the appropriate program name in place of $0):
> > > $0: no RSA support in libssl and libcrypto -- exiting.  See ssl(8)
> > > 
> > > I've looked through the archives and glanced at the source, but nothing
> > > jumps out as the obvious cause.  Other folks seem to have OpenSSH up
> > > on Solaris 7 already--so does anyone have any hints as I start trying to
> > > RTFM and RTFS?
> > > 
> > > Note:  After my first attempt blew up, I also tried (as an alternate
> > > method) downloading, compiling, installing, and linking against RSAREF2.
> > > That apparently worked okay, but the end result was the same.  Any chance
> > > that SSH found the correct libraries at compile time, but can't find them
> > > at runtime?
> > 
> > Rebuild openssl.  It has links into the rsaref2 code.  Other than
> > that, it sounds like my setup.
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 






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