On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I tried compiling Stunnel on Debian and get an error -- I need the ssl libraries. I tried ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/lib/ssl, which is where libssl-dev was installed, and it doesn't help. There is a libssl file in /usr/lib, but --with-ssl=/usr/lib/ssl doesn't seem to work either. What package on Debian provides the needed headers (according to aptitude, libssl-dev, the one I installed, does, but experience is telling me otherwise).
This is what I have on my debian systems:
ii libssl-dev 0.9.7e-3sarge1 SSL development libraries, header files and ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3sarge1 SSL shared libraries
(This, btw, is why I am trying to make static binaries -- you can never tell what to expect on Linux systems at this point. Often config/make doesn't work and there are many times when packages don't work out for one reason or another.)
I share your thinking, rolling out 50 binaries is not something you'd do with make install but with kickstart or the like.
In the past I had a different reason for wanting to compile it statically: FreeBSD jails. It makes it all the easier if you don't have to worry about shared libraries in your jailed environment.