On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Anders Palm wrote:

>> /usr/local/ssl and making sure the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable is set
>> correctly instead (as documented in docs/INSTALL).
>
> This is where it gets hairy. When i supply a path in --with-ssl, it finds
> the pkgconfig paths, when i set PKG_CONFIG_PATH it doesn't find ssl at all.

Probably then because with a static lib it doesn't find everything it needs by
itself and the detection of OpenSSL fails. You probably need to run configure
with LDFLAGS="-ldl" set.

Automatically detecting dependencies for static libs for building is a mess
and it generally needs some hand-holding to get right.

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