From: rcoder <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-12-01T08:52:47+09:00
Subject: Re: openssl engine driving me nuts!

Are both versions of OpenSSL in the same prefix, (/usr by default in
Red Hat distros) or do you have the second, non-standard package
somewhere else? If so, I would recommend removing any LD_* or CFLAGS
environment variables which point to the custom install; the default
OpenSSL build provided with RHEL should be fine for building the Ruby
extension.

Alternately, you should (and I do mean *should* -- I've definitely been
bit by things in the Ruby build infrastructure that ignored sensible
overrides in the past) be able to pass a '--with-openssl-dir=[...]'
flag to the extconf.rb script in the ext/openssl directory of the
source distribution to set the default path it uses. For example, if
the OpenSSL build you need to use is in
'/usr/local/newlibs/{include,lib}', try running the following from the
top of the Ruby source tree:

cd ext/openssl
ruby extconf.rb --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/newlibs
make
sudo make install

Hope that helps,

Lennon