Mutt and openssl from port

[Scott Bennett]

     On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:46:27 +0200 Lena at lena.kiev.ua wrote:
>7.1-PRERELEASE. I'd like Mutt to use zlib compression when connecting to pop3s.
>openssl in base doesn't support zlib. I installed openssl port from package
>(in the port zlib in on by default), wrote in make.conf:
>
>WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes
>
>and `portupgrade -f mutt`. However, Mutt still uses openssl from base:
>
>~ $ ldd /usr/local/bin/mutt
>/usr/local/bin/mutt:
>        libncursesw.so.7 => /lib/libncursesw.so.7 (0x28103000)
>        libssl.so.5 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.5 (0x2814f000)
>        libcrypto.so.5 => /lib/libcrypto.so.5 (0x28190000)
>        libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x282ea000)
>        libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x282f3000)
>        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x283ea000)
>
     Right.  We tor users just went through that, too.  The problem is that
what WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=YES does is to add -L/usr/local/lib to the cc or gcc
command that does the link edit step.  However, that adds the desired
directory to the *end* of the list of directories to be searched, when what
you want is to put it at the beginning of the list.  What I ended up doing
was to add LDFLAGS="-rpath=/usr/local/lib" to the ./configure step for tor,
so you may want to take a look at the "make config" target to see how best
to do that for mutt.  Be careful that the use of -rpath won't cause it to
include libraries from /usr/local/lib instead of from the base system for
other stuff where you might not want that to happen.

>Then I patched /usr/ports/mail/mutt/Makefile :
>
> CONFIGURE_ARGS=        --enable-pop --enable-imap --disable-fcntl \
>-               --with-ssl=${OPENSSLBASE} --sysconfdir=${PREFIX}/etc \
>+               --with-ssl=/usr/local --sysconfdir=${PREFIX}/etc \
>
>but got the same. I suppose that OPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE doesn't work:
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/065565.html
>What can I do?
>
     See explanation above.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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