>> What are you really asking here?
>
> simply, i want the ability to be able to *completely* bypass any
> *other* installed openssl stuff on this system that would normally be
> found by accident.
>

have you looked at some other os cross-build environment to see how they
handle this issue? openembedded for instance, has the ability to build a
complete os image in a cross-build env, including curl/libcurl.

allan

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