Pine4.64 installation on FreeBSD 7.1 (i386)

Saifi Khan saifi.khan at twincling.org
Sun Jan 25 01:29:46 PST 2009


Hi:

[note: i'm aware about Alpine in ports and am keen to install and use
only Pine].

i'm trying to build Pine 4.64 from the sources downloaded from Univ of
Wash site.
For SSL support, i have installed OpenSSL 0.9.8j from ports.

Here is the standard command run at the top of the pine source tree.

./build 'SSLCERTS=/etc/ssl'                       \
        'SSLINCLUDE=/usr/local/include/openssl'   \
        'SSLLIB=/usr/local/lib'                   \
        bsf

The first error reported right in the beginning is

  "File /etc/ssl/factory.pem is missing
   This might indicate that CA certs did not get properly
   installed.  If you get certificate validation failures
   in Pine, this might be the reason for them."

On reviewing the OpenSSL code base, there is no factory.pem
or a bunch of CA certs.

Two questions:
1. what is the purpose of factory.pem ?
2. where do i get the bunch of CA certs ?

Thanks in advance for helping me out,
as i try to learn more about FreeBSD approach of doing the things.
i've been a Gentoo user mostly.

-- 
thanks
Saifi.


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