openssl-engine should be installed only if you have a hardware encryption
devices (a crypto chip). If you only use software encryption, you need to use
the normal openssl package. However, if you do install openssl-engine and you
don't have such hardware, no harm could be done if you install it correctly,
since the loading of the hardware encryption device libraries is done
dynamically at runtime (via dlopen(1) and friends) only if they exist and
initialize correctly.

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Works!
>
>
> [war_at_war curl-7.9.4]$ curl --version
> curl 7.9.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.9.4 (OpenSSL 0.9.6c)
>
> My bad, it appears as I forgot to install the engine.
> What other programs use the openssl-engine?
> OpenSSH/SSH (Commercial)/links/wget never needed it, so I never
> installed it.
>
>
> Götz Babin-Ebell wrote:
>
> > Justin Piszcz wrote:
> >
> > > same problem, full log attached.
> >
> > OK.
> >
> > let's see:
> > [...]
> > $ ./configure --prefix=/app/curl-7.9.4 --with-ssl=/app/openssl-0.9.6c
> > [...]
> > checking for openssl/err.h... yes
> > checking for openssl/engine.h... yes
> > [...]
> >
> > Is it possible that sometime in the past in /app/openssl-0.9.6c
> > was an OpenSSL with engine support installed ?
> >
> > could you clean /app/openssl-0.9.6c, make install openssl
> > and run the curl configure ?
> >
> > Bye
> >
> > Goetz
> >
> > --
> > Goetz Babin-Ebell, TC TrustCenter AG, http://www.trustcenter.de
> > Sonninstr. 24-28, 20097 Hamburg, Germany
> > Tel.: +49-(0)40 80 80 26 -0, Fax: +49-(0)40 80 80 26 -126
>

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