I was installing freeradius today and the only way I could get it to recognize my ssl install, which is in a custom location, was to change line 21268 of the 'configure' script to from LIBS="-lssl -lcrypto $LIBS" LIBS="-lssl $LIBS" For some reason, even when I add '-lcrypto' to LDFLAGS it does not work, which seems like a bug. Even stranger, config.log shows that when this is done -lcrypto is being called: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -I/usr/local/pkg/openssl/include -ldl -lcrypto -L/usr/local/pkg/openssl/lib conftest.c -lssl -lnsl -lresolv -lpthread >&5 /usr/local/pkg/openssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_lib.o): In function `SSL_CTX_set_cert_store': ssl_lib.c:(.text+0x763): undefined reference to `X509_STORE_free' /usr/local/pkg/openssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_lib.o): In function `SSL_CTX_get_ex_new_index': ssl_lib.c:(.text+0x813): undefined reference to `CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index' /usr/local/pkg/openssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_lib.o): In function `SSL_get_ex_new_index': Note the '-lcrypto' in the gcc line. Now, without -lcrypto in LDFLAGS but with the line changed in the configure script this part of config.log becomes configure:21297: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -I/usr/local/pkg/openssl/include -ldl -L/usr/local/pkg/openssl/lib conftest.c -lssl -lcrypto -lnsl -lresolv -lpthread >&5 configure:21303: $? = 0 configure:21310: test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag" || test ! -s conftest.err configure:21313: $? = 0 configure:21320: test -s conftest configure:21323: $? = 0 configure:21337: result: yes The only difference that I can see is that '-lcrypto' is in a different position now. Does order matter in this case? ~Andrew