[fetchmail]Re: SSL authentication problems with Gmail

[Matthias Andree]

[Cc:ing fetchmail-users@lists.berlios.de, JFTR]

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:

> I unpacked the 6.3.1 tarball in my workspace directory, downloaded
> the openssl source from the Debian apt repositories (testing) and
> copied it across to my workspace too.  Then I ran:
>
>   $ cd fetchmail-6.3.1
>   $ ./configure --with-ssl=/home/sebyte/workspace/openssl-0.9.8a
>   [...]
>   configure: error: cannot link with SSL - check config.log
>
> I read the INSTALL file for building with ssl and the directory I
> specified on the comand line definitely includes the include/
> directory...

Actually, the system SSL should have been fine after installation of the
-dev package. I know not a single system with OpenSSL in the base system
where --with-ssl=/usr hasn't worked for me.

> I hope I've attached the relevant section from the config.log.

Yup.

> configure:12595: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  -L/home/sebyte/workspace/openssl-0.9.8a/lib -lcrypt  -lresolv -lssl -lcrypto  >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl

Try running "ldconfig -n /home/sebyte/workspace/openssl-0.9.8a/lib" and
re-run ./configure.

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Matthias Andree