On Fri, 30 May 2008, Weston C wrote:

> However -- I haven't attempted to install any version of openssl via
> rpm -- I built 0.98a from source.

Did you also install the OpenSSL package after you built it from source?
curl's build process assumes it installed, not just a built-from-source tree.

> It's possible I misconfigured something there, but I've tried building it
> with both no options fed to configure and with --prefix=/usr/local/ssl

Is that the tree you installed openssl in?

> As far as a devel package goes... is there a separate make target / packages
> for headers and such? I didn't gather that from the install docs, but I may
> have missed something.

Devel packages usually contain headers etc that the "normal" ones don't.

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  / daniel.haxx.se