Daniel,

In curl's './configure --help' there are a couple of flags for specifying
Kerberos headers and libraries:

    --with-krd4-includes=DIR --with-krb4-libs=DIR

Could the same be done for SSL? I haven't ever tried messing with configure, but
if you like I'll have a go...

Ralph Mitchell

Bijal Kothari wrote:

> Ralph/Daniel,
>
> You may be right in saying that the problem exists in the RHLinux in-built
> rpm openssl/curl package.
>
> I successfully managed to install cURL finally after Daniel's suggestion and
> used your suggestion to compile using configure with path of ssl directory.
>
> >To manually override this, edit the curl/lib/config.h file and #undef
> >HAVE_OPENSSL_ENGINE_H in there. Then rebuild curl again.
>
> May be the developers should come up with the next version of cURL, with a
> detection mechanism in that.
> On installation, let cURL detect openSSL engine from redHat.
> and then prompt:
> cURL has detected the openSSL engine version xxx from redhat Linux, do you
> want this installation to use newer version of openSSL? yes/no.
>
> default should be yes.
> and then let ./configure make the appropriate changes in the engine.h header
> file and compile cURL properly.
>
> just a suggestion :))
>
> Thank you very much to both of you.
> Bijal Kothari.
> bijal.kothari_at_hi2.com
>
> > Isn't the root cause of this problem something to do with RedHat
> > including the ENGINE stuff in the openssl RPMs? De-installing the
> > RPMs would fix that, but I suspect openssl is tied into other stuff
> > and you'd end up deinstalling something useful, like /bin/login or
> > /bin/bash... :)
> >
> > If you can't deinstall the the RPMs, removing/renaming /usr/include/openssl
> > (or whatever) would be another way to fix it.
> >
> > Ralph Mitchell
> >
> > Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Bijal Kothari wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thank you for prompt reply and suggestion. I tried the config method you
> > > > suggested. Now cURL fails to make, see the error i get.
> > > >
> > > > I re-compiled OpenSSl0.9g and then cURL.
> > >
> > > > ../lib/.libs/libcurl.so: undefined reference to
> `ENGINE_load_private_key'
> > > > ../lib/.libs/libcurl.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_set_default'
> > > > ../lib/.libs/libcurl.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_free'
> > > > ../lib/.libs/libcurl.so: undefined reference to `ENGINE_by_id'
> > >
> > > curl attempts to use these particular functions since the configure script
> > > detected a header file for the SSL ENGINE stuff (openssl/engine.h) in your
> > > openssl include directory. That file is normally only present when you've
> > > installed the OpenSSL ENGINE support.
> > >
> > > To manually override this, edit the curl/lib/config.h file and #undef
> > > HAVE_OPENSSL_ENGINE_H in there. Then rebuild curl again.

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