From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-05-12T21:53:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Digest::Base problem

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Martin Hansen <mail@maasha.dk> wrote:
>> Yes. OpenSSL provides the crypto-backend that Ruby uses.
>>
>> ./configure --with-openssl=/path/to/shared/library.so
>
> I dont get it. First of all configure complains:
>
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-openssl
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-ssl

./configure --help should, well, help.

> Second: I have no idea of what path to point to.

That's highly specific to your environment, but a "find libssl0.9.8"
should help.

> Third: I tried to manually compile ext/openssl and recompile ext/digest,
> but still no Digest::Base.

Yeah, those are stubs (i.e. they don't do anything). There once were
export restrictions in the US on almost all cryptography (technically,
crypto is a weapon as far as US export law is concerned).

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.