Should I have 2 copies of OpenSSL?

Russell Meek russell at russellmeek.net
Mon Nov 21 06:30:03 GMT 2005


Justin Meyer wrote:

>Hi Russell!
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>On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Russell E. Meek wrote:
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>>Justin Meyer wrote:
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>>>What gives? Is the way things should be? Or did I foul something up
>>>somewhere along the way through my upgrades? If I did mess something up,
>>>what should I do to fix it?
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>>Justin,
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>>How about trying this, you have the most recent version of openssl 
>>installed in base due to the upgrade to 6.0 - release.
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>>If you have the OpenSSL port installed why don't you uninstall the port 
>>and place the following in your /etc/make.conf file
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>>WITH_OPENSSL_BASE=yes
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>>This will force all ports you install going foward to use the base 
>>install of OpenSSL and not to install OpenSSL as a dependency from ports.
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>>You could then make deinstall,  make install clean && make distclean any 
>>port that requires OpenSSL, Ruby for instance.
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>>This should make it build with the base install, eliminating the version 
>>conflict.
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>That seems to have done the trick, Russell; the script works again!
>Thank you very much for the suggestions :)
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No problem, anytime


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