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I am trying to install openssh v2.9-p2 on Solaris 8. I already installed zlib and openssl, as required in INSTALL file. But when I issue ./configure to configure openssh v2.9-p2 for my platform ( I got the sources), it stops in the folowing message:

checking for OpenSSL directory... configure: error: Could not find working OpenSSL library, please install or check config.log

Looking in config.log file, I encountered the folowing message:

configure:4433: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -I/opt -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include -R/opt -L/opt -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl -L/export/home/gouvei/openssl/openssl-engine-0.9.6a -R/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lz -lsocket -lnsl -lgen -lcrypto 1>&5
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
dlclose /export/home/gouvei/openssl/openssl-engine-0.9.6a/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o) (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
dlsym /export/home/gouvei/openssl/openssl-engine-0.9.6a/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o) (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
dlopen /export/home/gouvei/openssl/openssl-engine-0.9.6a/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o) (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I am using gcc v3.0. Does anybody knows what´s the problem? The zlib and ssl I installed from the sources ( I compiled them ) and everything went fine. Any help would be grateful.

TKS

HTT

try
./configure --with-ssl-dir=/path/to/openssl/libraries

Usually /usr/local/ssl/include