2.0.5 on Solaris with openssl 0.9.8h

[Alan DeKok]

Rafiqul Ahsan wrote:
> I am facing some challenges on building Freeradius 2.0.5 (Solaris OS)
> with openssl version 0.9.8h. The Solaris 10 come with prebuilt openssl
> version, and found at /usr/sfw/bin/openssl, version 0.9.7d. Prior to
> building freeradius I built newer version openssl (v.0.9.8h) located
> in /usr/local/ssl. here are the two openssl version now I have in my
> Solaris.

  Why not just install the OpenSSL from sunfreeware?  They have a
package pre-built...

> When I built Freeradius 2.0.5 (I simply executed three comands,
> ./configure make and make install) , I was expecting that it would
> build with my desired openssl version.

  Why?  How does it know what you desire?  Did you configure the linker
to prefer one version over the other?  Did you configure the C "include"
references to prefer one over the other?

> this. I sent openssl community this question, they wanted me to verify
> whether I actualy built the freeradius with this new openssl version.

  Well... of course.

> I am not able to understand what library it is actually built with,
> because I could not figure out from build log, nor the configure. But
> if I use the configure options as below, I see a rolling error (that
> telling me that I must not have built the freeradius with openssl
> 0.9.8h ?) :

  No idea.
...
> Text relocation remains                         referenced
>     against symbol                  offset      in file
> <unknown>                           0x0
> /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_lib.o)

  That's a fairly useless error.  Are you sure that the libssl.a file is
really a library, and not something else?

  Alan DEKok.