Re: configure && --with

On Wed, 2026-04-08 at 11:02 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día miércoles, abril 08, 2026 a las 08:57:24 +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:
> 
> > Thanks for your hints. I do use now:
> > 
> > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sisis-pap/pgsql-18.3 \
> >         --libdir=/usr/local/sisis-pap/pgsql-18.3/lib \
> >         --with-includes=/usr/local/sisis-pap/include \
> >         --with-libraries=/usr/local/sisis-pap/lib \
> >         --enable-nls \
> >         --with-perl \
> >         --with-ldap \
> >         --with-pam \
> >         --without-icu \
> >         --with-openssl
> > 
> > but it still says in config.log
> > 
> > ...
> > configure:14192: checking for openssl
> > configure:14210: found /usr/local/sisis-pap/bin/openssl
> > configure:14222: result: /usr/local/sisis-pap/bin/openssl
> > configure:14242: using openssl: openssl not found
> > 
> > The libs are in the correct place:
> > 
> > $ ls /usr/local/sisis-pap/lib/libs*
> > /usr/local/sisis-pap/lib/libssl.a   /usr/local/sisis-pap/lib/libssl.so.3
> > /usr/local/sisis-pap/lib/libssl.so
> > $ ls /usr/local/sisis-pap/lib/libcr*
> > /usr/local/sisis-pap/lib/libcrypto.a   /usr/local/sisis-pap/lib/libcrypto.so.3
> > /usr/local/sisis-pap/lib/libcrypto.so
> 
> I run the full ./configure below strace(1) and it turns out what I was
> especting:
> 
> $ grep -n execve tr | grep bin/openssl
> 518130:1081  execve("/usr/local/sisis-pap/bin/openssl", ["/usr/local/sisis-pap/bin/openssl", "version"], 0x560886d493e0 /* 78 vars */) = 0
> 
> now looking for the PID 1081 only and the fetched libs:
> 
> grep ^1081 tr | grep openat | egrep '/libssl|/libcry'
> 1081  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib64/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libssl.so.3", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden)
> 1081  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib64/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v2/libssl.so.3", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden)
> 1081  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib64/libssl.so.3", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> 1081  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.3", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> 
> i.e. /usr/local/sisis-pap/bin/openssl does not pick-up its libs where it
> should, while with a correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH is does it fine:

Then why don't you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the environment where you call ./configure?

Alternatively, perhaps it is possible to build OpenSSL with an RPATH that
points to its shared libraries.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe