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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:39:06 +0300 (EAT)
From:      Luke Kyohere <luke@eahd.or.ug>
To:        Ken Kroel <kkroel@cfl.rr.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FREEBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: openssl port problem
Message-ID:  <20021210143715.X25858-100000@nemesis.eahd.or.ug>
In-Reply-To: <20021121212256.016c22a4.kkroel@cfl.rr.com>

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Hello, I see you posted this to the lists sometime back, but I saw no
reply to it. Incidentally I am experiencing *EXACTLY* the same problem, so
I was wondering if you had finally come up with a solution, seeing as you
did no followup post.

Your help will be very much appreciated,

Thanx
Lk.

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ken Kroel wrote:

> greetings all,
>
> i am having a problem with the openssl port (FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE). i
> have installed it and openssh (which works fine) using the ports, but
> when i try to install several other programs that depend on openssl
> (sylpheed-claws, vtun), they fail and tell me that they can't find
> openssl:
>
>
> fbsd# pwd
> /usr/ports/net/vtun
> fbsd# make
> This port requires the OpenSSL library, which is part of
> the FreeBSD crypto distribution but not installed on your
> machine. Please see the "OpenSSL" section in the handbook
> (at "http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/openssl.html
> ", for instance) for instructions on how to obtain and install the FreeBSD
> OpenSSL distribution.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
>
>
> but the system seems to know that it is installed:
>
> fbsd# pkg_info |grep openssl
> openssl-0.9.6g_1    SSL and crypto library
> fbsd# portversion |grep openssl
> openssl                     =
>
> i have deinstalled/reinstalled with no luck. i also just ran cvsup and
> got the same results. the Makefile uses ${OPENSSLBASE}, and on a
> suggestion from someone else, i tried to set an environment variable of
> OPENSSLBASE to /usr before running make, and also added
> "OPENSSLBASE=/usr" to /etc/defaults/make.conf but neither helped. any
> other ideas are appreciated. TIA.
>
> ken
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